Twelve years, one dead human rights lawyer’s warning, and the UN just produced a document with all the teeth of a permission slip. The US and Russia agreed on something for once: delete the word “ethics” from the paragraph about robots that decide who dies. Meanwhile a defense startup raised $5 billion in May and is pouring concrete on a factory in Ohio. Nobody’s waiting for Geneva. We talk about why “we can’t tie our hands because China won’t” is exactly backwards, and why losing this fight in 2026 means losing it until 2034.
