Autonomous Cyber Weapons as AI-Enabled Digital Harms: A Platform Accountability Framework
Academic framework argues that autonomous AI-enabled cyber weapons targeting civilian infrastructure fall outside current EU governance (DSA, AI Act), proposing a platform-accountability model to close the gap.
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arXiv:2610.32238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments govern AI-generated online harms from commercial platforms (EU DSA, AI Act, UK Online Safety Act), yet the most severe class remains ungoverned: autonomous cyber weapons (ACWs) deployed by nation-states against civilian infrastructure. We address this gap with three contributions: a digital-harm taxonomy (six ACW modes $\times$ five harm categories); the Meaningful Human Control (MHC) Model, a governance-compliance function with a cl
Editorial Analysis
For operators of essential services under NIS2, the identification of an ungoverned threat class could foreshadow new obligations around resilience to state-sponsored autonomous attacks.
Brief legal and risk teams on the emerging regulatory discourse around autonomous cyber weapons to anticipate compliance shifts.
Nation-state autonomous cyber weapons remain outside current EU regulatory scope; new accountability frameworks may impose future obligations on critical-infrastructure operators.
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