On 9–10 September, SIPRI’s Governance of AI Programme hosted a closed in-person dialogue on how states and industry actors can collaborate to support the lawful development and use of AI in the military domain.
SIPRI and its partners hosted the 2026 Armament and Disarmament Summer School in Stockholm and Uppsala
On 22–25 June, SIPRI hosted an in-person course on weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation and disarmament in an era of technological convergence.
On 15–17 June, experts from SIPRI’s Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programme participated in the first informal United Nations exchanges on AI in the military domain, held in Geneva.
On 3 March, SIPRI and the Department of National Defence of Canada (DND) held a side event at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapon systems (CCW GGE on LAWS) in Geneva to present findings and recommendations from SIPRI’s new report titled ‘Responsible Procurement of Military Artificial Intelligence’.
On 4–5 February, SIPRI researchers attended the third REAIM Summit—a multistakeholder gathering dedicated to international dialogue on the responsible development and use of AI in the military domain.
SIPRI is co-hosting ‘Military AI: International Law and Governance’, a two-day capacity-building course organized in collaboration with the Asser Institute.
SIPRI held a closed-door workshop on 20–21 November to examine how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, could support and strengthen the biological weapons prohibition regime.
On 10 November, SIPRI hosted a public webinar on possible directions for multilateral policy on autonomous weapon systems (AWS). The discussion centred on findings from a new SIPRI report on this topic.
On 22–23 September, SIPRI organized a workshop in Stockholm to discuss the impact of military artificial intelligence (AI) on nuclear escalation.
SIPRI was pleased to host a public webinar on the peace and security implications of AI agents, following the publication of a new SIPRI Essay on this topic.
On 8 September, researchers from SIPRI participated in the 2025 World Emerging Security Forum held in Seoul, South Korea.
On 4 September, the project ‘AutoPractices’, hosted by the Centre for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with SIPRI, launched a report on military artificial intelligence (AI).
SIPRI and its partners hosted the Armament and Disarmament Summer School, an annual initiative that provides an important learning and networking space for early career professionals working in disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control.
On 29 August, SIPRI hosted a virtual event to launch the new report ‘Bias in Military AI and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law’.
States involved in policy debates on military AI are increasingly expressing concerns about bias in military AI systems. However, these concerns are rarely discussed in depth.
On 8 July, SIPRI researcher Jules Palayer took part in the AI for Good summit in Geneva, speaking about the risks that civilian AI technology can pose to international peace and security.
On 16–17 June, SIPRI held an expert-led workshop centring on AI integration into nuclear and conventional systems, its implications, and governance at the AI–nuclear nexus.
On 7–9 May, SIPRI experts co-organized a panel and led a two-day workshop in New York focused on addressing the misuse of civilian artificial intelligence.
SIPRI and the Asser Institute hosted a short training course in the Hague on international law and the governance of military technologies driven by artificial intelligence.
On 5 March, SIPRI held a side event at a meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems.
On 3–4 February, SIPRI held an expert workshop in Stockholm on ‘Bias in Military AI and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law’.
On 5 December 2024, SIPRI’s Director and leading experts participated in the World Emerging Security Forum in Seoul, an annual event aimed at shaping global discussions on ways to effectively tackle emerging security threats.
SIPRI actively contributed to the 2024 edition of the REAIM Summit, which took place on 9–10 September.
On 24 April, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) hosted a webinar on ‘Addressing the Risk of AI Misuse: What Can the AI Community Learn From Best Practices in Biosafety and Biosecurity?’. The webinar was co-hosted with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.
This month SIPRI and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) launched a three-year joint initiative on responsible innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) for peace and security.
SIPRI actively engaged in and contributed with two breakout sessions at the first summit on Responsible AI in the Military Domain, REAIM 2023. The summit was held on 15–16 February in The Hague.
On 17 May, SIPRI’s Dr Vincent Boulanin participated in a virtual United Nations Security Council Arria-formula meeting entitled ‘The Impact of Emerging Technologies on International Peace and Security’.
On 5–6 November, SIPRI was a thematic partner to the international conference on ‘2020. Capturing Technology. Rethinking Arms Control’.