Anna Hehir is the Autonomous Weapons lead at the Future of Life Institute. ANNA: If you make it easier to wage war and faster without humans being able to see what's going on and make decisions ...

By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war. The technology exists to build autonomous weapons. How well they would work and whether they could ...

Ms Solovyeva says the future of autonomous weapons is what she and her colleague ... "We so often see that the technologies of war come home - they become used domestically by police forces.