Artificial intelligence is not only impacting economies and opening new frontiers in everyday life but is also in military environments. Governments are exploring and developing new solutions that could significantly impact how wars will be fought and balances of power. Introduction  The origins of artificial intelligence used in warfare can be traced back to the 1940s, when Alan Turing’s Enigma machine was created to decode German messages during World War II. In the 1950s Turing created the “Turing Test” to analyse a computer’s behaviour and determine if it had “human intelligence” while in the early 1960’s Arthur Samuel coined the