The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems

The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems

Author: Software Engineering Daily April 30, 2026 Duration: 1:06:40
Artificial intelligence is transforming warfare faster than the legal and ethical frameworks designed to govern it. Militaries around the world are deploying AI-powered decision support systems to identify targets, assess proportionality, and direct weapons. The gap between what is technically possible and what international law can effectively regulate is widening by the day. Yuval Shany

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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RxJS with Ben Lesh [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:29
RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to…
Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:39
JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, especially in resear…
Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:25
Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly kno…
Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:12
Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background…
TypeScript with Jake Bailey [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:10
TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer productivity and code safety. The TypeScript compiler performs type checking a…
MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:07
Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans layers of the cloud stack, including virtual machines, containers, and…
AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:47
Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python-based data science…
ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:57
ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents challenges i…
WayForward Games with Tomm Hulett and Voldi Way [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:03
WayForward is a renowned video game studio that was founded in 1990. The company has developed games for publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Nintendo and has released their games across major hardware platforms from t…