Nicholas George Carroll on Ban autonomous lethal weapons

Nicholas George Carroll

Australian military ethics writer and educator; author on AI, accountability, and military decision-making.

The goal is not to remove humans from the loop, but to ensure that the loop itself remains ethically and operationally sound.

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Nicholas George Carroll, “Peering Inside the Black Box: AI, the Military, and the Ethics of the Unknown,” The Forge (Australian Defence College), February 17, 2026.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable

If AI systems are to assist in such decisions, we must find ways to make their reasoning more transparent—or at least to mitigate the effects of their opacity.

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