In his reflection, Leo XIV included an explicit warning against the religious instrumentalization of violence.

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Autonomous Military Weapon Market is experiencing rapid growth as nations increasingly invest in advanced technologies to bolster their defense capabilities ...

A pledge against the use of killer robots, drones and other military weapons that once activated make decisions on their own. The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge was signed in 2018 by more than two ...

Autonomous weapons systems represent the latest iteration of this historical trajectory. Building on the legacies of land mines and remotely operated drones, these systems promise precision and ...

PURPOSE: BUILD AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS TO STRENGTHEN DETERRENCE. Widespread alarmism about autonomous weapons has undermined U.S. military competitiveness. Autonomous weapons are not inherently unethical ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued one of the sharpest calls yet for global rules on military AI in his Wednesday address to the UN General Assembly. “Weapons are evolving faster than our ...

A delegation representing the Holy See urged the United Nations this week to put a moratorium on autonomous weapons designed to kill without human decision-making. Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the ...

I speak on behalf of Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign. The Martens Clause provides one existing ethical framework against which to assess autonomous weapons ...

The mission marks the first time an autonomous aircraft has carried out an air-to-air weapon engagement with AIM-120.

Ukrainian FPV attack drone with warhead. The new version does not require a skilled pilot but carried out the final stage of the attack on its own. In the video an FPV attack drone with automatic ...

The post-Cold War paradigm of globalisation came to a violent end in February 2022 with Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, and a dangerous, uncertain era is now unfolding, sparking a new global arms ...