About

Machine Politics records where every country stands on autonomous weapons, tracked as positions shift over time. It reads five signals per state: recorded votes, endorsements, sponsorships, official statements, and national policy.

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 coded position on this site traces to a quoted, dated, linked primary source, and every one was approved by the analyst of record before it rendered. The methodology page explains the rubric, the evidence rules, and what the site does when the record is ambiguous.

How it is made

AI tooling was used to build this site, and it is worth being exact about where. Tooling drafts, checks, and formats. It never decides. Every coded position, every shift event, and every analyst sentence was read and approved by a person before it rendered, and the build refuses to ship anything that was not. There is no automated or model-assisted position classification, and the published pipeline makes no model calls.

$0 infrastructure. Static pages, no tracking, no ads, no accounts.

Contact and corrections

If you find an error, start at the corrections page; it explains the policy. Report it by opening an issue in the repository. Corrections are handled in public, on the record, rather than by private mail.