Rethinking human roles in AI warfare

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s42256-025-01123-6

Most policy proposals aimed at managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled weapons rely heavily on meaningful human control or appropriate human judgment for risk mitigation. This Comment argues that there are various ways humans can exert such control over AI, and that developing a careful taxonomy of these is necessary for building actionable risk-mitigation policies for warfighting AI.

​Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s42256-025-01123-6Most policy proposals aimed at managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled weapons rely heavily on meaningful human control or appropriate human judgment for risk mitigation. This Comment argues that there are various ways humans can exert such control over AI, and that developing a careful taxonomy of these is necessary for building actionable risk-mitigation policies for warfighting AI. Read More

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