By Anna Nadibaidze

18 May 2026

Anna Nadibaidze wrote an op-ed about the United States’ use of AI technologies in its war against Iran for the LSE US Politics and Policy Blog. While the US conflict with Iran is not the first “AI war”, it does show the continuing concerns over how people work with technology to make military decisions. Anna Nadibaidze writes that while it can be easy to blame AI for intelligence failures, such mistakes are down to poor human judgement which can be made worse using AI. Questions about how the military use of AI is governed must keep sight of the continued importance of human decision-making in times of conflict.