About

Machine Politics records where every country stands on autonomous weapons, and how those positions shift over time. For each state it tracks five things: how it voted at the UN, what pledges it signed, what resolutions and papers it co-sponsored, what its officials have said, and what rules it has written for its own military.

The site takes no position on whether autonomous weapons should be banned or regulated. It records who says what.

Who makes this

Machine Politics is researched and written by Walker Robinson, who works on AI policy and national security, including autonomous weapons. Every judgment call here is his own. Every position shows the rule it was judged against and the document it came from. More of his work is at walker-robinson.com.

Every position on this site links to a quoted, dated primary source, and every one was approved by Walker before it went live. The methodology page explains the rubric, the evidence rules, and what the site does when a state's words point both ways.

How it is made

AI tools were used to build this site, and here is exactly where. They draft, check, and format. They never decide. Every position, every shift, and every sentence of analysis was read and approved by a person before it went live, and the build refuses to ship anything that was not. No software classifies positions, and the published site makes no AI calls.

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Contact and corrections

Found an error? Start at the corrections page; it explains the policy. Report it by opening an issue in the repository. Corrections happen in public, on the record, not by private email.