# At Least The Robots In The Coming War Against Humans Will Understand War Crimes

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Podcast: [Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228)
Published: 2025-12-17T17:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/2025/12/at-least-the-robots-in-the-coming-war-against-humans-will-understand-war-crimes
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## Resource

If you want 2025 in a nutshell, it doesn't get much better than a blundering Secretary of Defense bragging that the Pentagon bought an expensive, bespoke AI bot and it immediately started calling out the Trump administration for committing war crimes. As the legal industry ventures into a hallucinatory AI frontier, it's worth remembering that sometimes the bots outperform the human lawyers. At the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor tries to convince her colleagues not to blow up the federal government over a theory concocted in the 1970s. Sadly, she's fighting the wrong fight. And in a world of mergers -- especially cross-border mergers -- we have a reminder that sometimes it doesn't work out.

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