RAW Co-Director Jessica Dorsey has recently contributed to several international discussions on the Minab school bombing and the broader implications of AI in warfare. Through appearances on Sky News and NHK WORLD-JAPAN, as well as a new Opinio Juris article co-authored with Taylor Kate Woodcock, she has highlighted the legal and ethical challenges posed by AI-enabled military decision-making and emphasized the need to ensure that life-and-death decisions remain under meaningful human control.
In a recent Sky News documentary, Jessica discusses the Minab school strike and the concerns raised by reports that outdated intelligence may have been incorporated into AI-enabled targeting processes. The documentary explores how failures in intelligence maintenance and verification can be amplified when decision-support systems operate at increasing speed and scale.
Jessica also appeared on NHK WORLD-JAPAN, where she reflected on the Minab incident as a moment to pause and ask whether increasing reliance on AI in warfare is the right path forward. She emphasized the need for the development of legal frameworks that ensure decisions about life and death are not delegated to AI systems, but remain under meaningful human control.
Building on these themes, Jessica also recently co-authored an Opinio Juris article with Taylor Kate Woodcock, titled “AI-Enabled Targeting and the Structural Strain on International Humanitarian Law.” The article argues that AI-enabled decision-support systems do more than introduce new technical risks: by operating at unprecedented speed and scale, they can amplify flawed intelligence while reducing opportunities for the human verification required by international humanitarian law. Using Minab as a case study, the authors contend that the incident should be understood not simply as a tragic mistake, but as a warning about the structural risks posed by AI-enabled targeting.
