A January 2025 Stanford International Policy Review article by a graduate student argues that Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) are entering real-world deployment, citing Ukraine as the first combat testing ground, and that international arms-control frameworks remain far behind the pace of development. The piece documents active LAWS programs in the US, China, and Russia, the collapse of US-China AI arms-control talks in 2024, and the structural difficulty of reaching binding treaties, drawing explicit parallels to Cold War nuclear negotiations. For financial institutions, the key structural implication is that geopolitical competition over military AI is accelerating defense-sector AI procurement and entrenching strategic tech alliances, which shapes the regulatory and export-control environment around AI hardware and software.
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