Region: Global

As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at unprecedented speed and scale, Access Now, Amnesty International, and more than 200 civil society organizations and individuals are calling attention to the militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and for an immediate halt to the use of AI systems in the military kill chain.

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.

Join the next webinar organized by the Digital Security Helpline, to discuss key trends and strategies to keep at-risk actors safe online.

Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries.

Access Now’s latest research unpacks how AI tools are dodging procurement vetting to infiltrate humanitarian organisations, creating new risks for them and the communities they serve.

As of January 2026, Arzu Geybulla has joined Access Now as Co-Executive Director, partnering with Alejandro Mayoral Baños to co-lead Access Now through the evolving human rights landscape of the next year and beyond

In the third part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.