RAW researchers have contributed to Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, and international media in recent weeks, offering expert analysis on the rapid expansion of AI-assisted targeting in the context of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
Lauren Gould spoke to EW Magazine about the Pentagon’s use of the Maven Smart System in Iran, tracing a trajectory from early targeting experiments in Afghanistan to today’s AI-driven campaigns in the Middle East. She argued that the logic of eliminating as many targets as possible, detached from political objectives and civilian harm, requires international regulation comparable to that governing chemical and nuclear weapons.
Jessica Dorsey appeared on RTL Nieuws and SRF’s 10 vor 10, and contributed to a Financial Times investigation into the AI-driven kill chain. She highlighted the unprecedented scale of the Iran campaign, with strike numbers achieved in four days that previously took six months, and raised fundamental questions about whether meaningful human oversight and legal accountability are possible when AI systems generate targets at the speed and volume now on display.
Marijn Hoijtink and Robin Vanderborght wrote in De Standaard about warfare as digital service provision: states subscribing to cloud infrastructure and AI models from companies like Palantir and Anthropic, with democratic oversight struggling to keep pace. They cautioned that European policymakers should resist deepening dependence on US technology companies at the very moment strategic autonomy has become a political priority.
Across these contributions, RAW researchers point to a shared concern: as AI accelerates and scales military targeting, the conditions for meaningful democratic and legal scrutiny of the use of force are being quietly eroded.
