This backgrounder aims to provide an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers, as well as civil society and academic researchers, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved.
This topical backgrounder discusses how export controls currently apply to AI algorithms, training data and models and how exporters can approach the task of classification.
As states rush to deploy military artificial intelligence capabilities, they should keep in mind that responsible behaviour principles apply even at the procurement stage.
Increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems cooperating at scale could have unpredictable results for international peace and security.
Autonomous weapons systems raise profound questions about the human role in the use of force. How those questions get answered on the international stage, or whether they get answered at all, currently hangs in the balance.
A new generation of quantum technology promises to transform military capabilities and much more. There are profound security implications that demand a coordinated governance response.