Beyond Killer Robots: General AI Attitudes and Public Support for Military AI in Nine Countries

ArXi:2605.25196v1 Announce Type: cross AI-enabled military systems are a fixture of modern military conflict. Applications vary from autonomous drones for surveillance and attack to AI-ed target selection. The importance of AI for modern conflict shows also in public disputes between governments and technology companies over the conditions for military access to frontier AI. Both military uses and government attempts at enabling and steering them happen before a backdrop of public opinion, yet we still know little about how people think about military AI.