AI is reshaping warfare – but regulations must follow suit

Published on February 25, 2023

On the one-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian war in Ukraine, discourse over the role artificial intelligence is playing in the conflict intensifies. Specifically, while the United States and European and other Western countries continue with their conventional military support for Ukraine, both these actors and Russia are increasingly turning to AI-enabled military technologies.

As Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns of the competitive advantages reaped by AI’s information-processing abilities, Russian AI-enabled ‘robotic tanks’ - more accurately termed Marker uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) - are deployed in the Donbas. An ‘advanced vision system with AI algorithms that do data processing’ makes the Marker a concrete symbol of both the reality of AI-enabled warfare and the regulatory and ethical implications of this new form of warfare.

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