The United States’ Intelligence Community1 (IC) has released Interim Guidance about the acquisition and use of foundation AI models (FMs).  This guidance has been provided by inter-agency lawyers and concerns the application of AG guidelines and policies to the IC’s acquisition and use of FMs. As well as clearly suggesting that IC elements will use FMs for intelligence purposes, the document provides additional guidance concerning model acquisition, modification, augmentation, prompts and outputs.

On April 29, 2021, the French Defense Ethics Committee issued an Opinion on the integration of autonomy into lethal weapon systems. Through this work, the Committee aims to establish a clear definition of autonomy and a clear distinction between fully (LAWS) and partially autonomous lethal weapon systems (PAWLS).

On November 27, 2020, Brigadier-General Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of the Iranian military’s nuclear program, was shot and killed in a convoy outside Tehran.

On March 12th, 2020, Standards Australia published an ‘Artificial Intelligence Standards Roadmap: Making Australia’s Voice Heard’.

Like Singapore, Atlanta or London, the city of Nice recently undertook a series of trials using artificial intelligence technologies.

In April 2019, the French Armed Forces Minister set out France’s main priorities and ambitions in the field of AI: the AI Task Force Report.