Comment by Cordula Droege

States have a responsibility – to their own populations, and to those in other states who will face the consequences of the proliferation and use of AI-enabled weapons and by conflict escalation – to set clear limits. A company cannot determine what international law, including IHL, permits. No safety testing, voluntary commitment or corporate policy substitutes for international rules where a new technology of warfare creates humanitarian risks that the world cannot accept. That is a decision for states, made together, in public, and one they can be held to.