#aiwarfare — Public Fediverse posts

"We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.

We therefore call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This includes the use of AI decision-support systems, including target generation systems, remote biometric surveillance, and multimodal AI models, including large language models (LLMs). AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at speed and at scale, and currently no technical or procedural fixes can effectively prevent the lethal and devastating consequences that stem from the fundamental challenges it poses to international law."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/

#AI #AIWarfare #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw

"These developments point to a deeper structural reality, that the US national growth model is increasingly organised around a triangular system between private credit financing, AI infrastructure, and military demand. The financial and real economic fragility of which the private credit liquidity crisis is a symptom, is intersecting and converging with AI in structurally significant ways. While disrupting the software services universe, AI is absorbing large sums of capital for investments in chip production, data centres and related infrastructure (including in requirements such as land, energy sources, cooling systems, and computing capacity). A significant share of that investment is being funded with credit from private credit vehicles. It is now emerging that the hype around AI, driven by the surging demand for high-end chips produced by ‘market-favourite’ Nvidia and newer entrants like AMD, is now being questioned by the lack-lustre returns from deployment of AI by downstream businesses. While some firms do record revenue growth from AI use or deployment, the investment needed is proving to be difficult to justify for many others. So, the demand and revenue growth projections implicit in the rising valuations of AI firms themselves increasingly appear to be driven by hype rather than reasoned, evidence-backed judgements."

https://developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/militarised-ai-private-credit-and-iran-war/

#USA #Iran #War #PrivateCredit #Finance #AI #BigTech #AIWarfare