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Autonomous weapons and military AI report

Daily evidence on autonomous weapons, AI targeting, military use and international governance, linked to original sources. Coverage counts are signals of attention—not measures of importance, harm or consensus.

Prepared by the ethics.ai evidence desk · automatically refreshed · editorial scope reviewed against the methodology and corrections policy

Daily source coverage90 days
2026-05-18 2026-08-15
1,011records in archive
637latest 30 days
+159%versus prior 30 days

By record type

News 609
Research 202
Field notes 126
Policy 67
Incidents 7

Leading sources in this record

arXiv 105
Breaking Defense (AI) 103
War on the Rocks 54
OpenAlex 31
Financial Times Technology (headlines) 31
DefenseScoop 30
ITWeb (ZA) 30
NextGov/FCW 25
CyberScoop 23
Just Security 22

What this report tracks

Tracks military AI, autonomous weapon systems, targeting, national-security deployment and treaty proposals. Publication in this record does not verify operational claims or endorse a policy position.

Questions to take into the evidence

  • Where is meaningful human control being defined?
  • Which deployments and tests have credible public evidence?
  • How are states and civil society approaching international rules?

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Method and limits

This report is assembled automatically from source metadata and keyword classifications. It summarizes what the tracked source fleet published; it does not independently validate every linked claim. Source-fleet growth can inflate historical comparisons. Cite the individual evidence record and original publisher for substantive claims.