The rapid development in technology, especially of Artificial Intelligence, will have the capability to transform every major aspect of an organization and open new opportunities than ever before. The use of AI will only grow as a report from BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review revealed that 85 percent of executives claimed AI will provide their companies a competitive advantage, while 60 percent reported an AI strategy to be an urgent need for their organisation. In recent years, AI became the subject of interest for many businesses that has spilled into the workplace with the ever-increasing use of AI-driven automation and robotics to perform traditional tasks. However, the ethics surrounding the development and use of artificial intelligence remain provocative, creating a significant constraining factor to AI's full potential. In February this year, the U.S. Department of Defense adopted ethical principles for Artificial Intelligence, which is based on the Defense Innovation Board's set of AI ethical guidelines proposed last year.

Does the law of war apply to artificially intelligent systems? The U.S. Department of Defense is taking this question seriously, and adopted ethical principles for artificial intelligence (AI) in February 2020 based on the Defense Innovation Board's set of AI ethical guidelines proposed last year. However, just as defense organizations must abide by the law of war and other norms and values, individuals are responsible for the systems they create and use. Ensuring that AI systems are as committed as we are to responsible and lawful behavior requires changes to engineering practices. Considerations of ethical, moral, and legal implications are not new to defense organizations, but they are starting to become more common in AI engineering teams.

A rtificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies of our generation. Media coverage of this disruption tends to focus on the more contentious ways in which organizations could use AI to get ahead. International concern has strengthened this focus: in July 2018, more than 2,000 researchers from 36 countries signed a pledge not to develop lethal autonomous weapons. In the same year, Google instigated a ban on developing AI software that could be used to make weapons. The move came after several employees resigned over the company's contract with the US Department of Defense to analyze remotely piloted aircraft videos. But this attention on autonomous weapons detracts from the main benefit AI brings to defense organizations: the ability to analyze data too vast for humans.