Ukraine's new AI drones & 'dismay' as UN head António Guterres agrees to attend Russian summit

Ukraine's new AI drones & 'dismay' as UN head António Guterres agrees to attend Russian summit

Day 973.

Today, as Putin gathers world leaders in Russia, we ask why the UN General Secretary is on the guest list, and – further to the battlefield updates – consider the implications of artificial intelligence being used in the next generation of drones.


Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Chemical Weapons Expert and Former Tank Commander). @HamishDBG on X.



Content referenced:


Anti-drone drone developed by Ukraine to take out Iranian-designed kamikazes (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/10/20/anti-drone-ukraine-iranian-kamikazes-russia/


The Myth of the ‘Global South’: A Flawed Foreign Policy Construct (Policy Exchange Report):

https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-myth-of-the-global-south/




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