A New York Times’ op-ed support for autonomous AI weapons systems overlooks the significant ethical and humanitarian dangers posed by such technologies, which could lead to indiscriminate harm, undermine international humanitarian law, and exacerbate conflicts.

AOAV is one of eleven civil society organisations that are asking for more to be done to ensure accountability and transparency in the protection of civilians during conflict. A 2021 report by the New York Times revealed critical failures by Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) to prevent, respond to, and be held accountable for civilian harm in Iraq and Syria. These developments need to have important implications for the way the UK approaches civilian

The following article was published by The New York Times on 22 September 2015. It features AOAV’s research on the impact of explosive weapons in Yemen. The original article, written by Shauib Almosawa and Kareem Fahim, can be found here. Read the report: State of Crisis: Explosive Weapons in Yemen SANA, Yemen — President Abdu […]

Explosive violence is steadily spreading in eastern Ukraine. A reported air strike this week in the urban heart of downtown Lugansk, in which civilians are thought to have been killed, is the latest and perhaps most alarming escalation in the crisis. While the exact causes and casualties from the 2 June incident are still unclear […]

Stephen Farrell is a Metro reporter for the New York Times. After covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, he joined Times’s Baghdad bureau, where he set up and ran the Baghdad Bureau blog from the field. In 2009, he helped launch and run the Baghdad Bureau’s successor At War blog, […]

Peter Tinti is a freelance journalist covering politics, culture and security in West Africa. Tinti has written for a range of major publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and The Independent. Formerly based in Bamako, Mali, he is currently based in Abuja, Nigeria. Recommended articles Foreign Policy: […]