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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Raise Accountability Gap in Defence AI Governance

5/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

AI-driven weapons capable of autonomous lethal targeting operate without clear legal or ethical accountability frameworks at international level. Defence organisations face material governance exposure as regulatory consensus remains unresolved at the United Nations.

Domain

Security & Privacy

Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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