Gary Corn's Work on AI-Enabled Military Deception Highlighted in Opinio Juris Symposium Introduction
Gary Corn's scholarship is among the contributions featured in the introductory essay to the Opinio Juris Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict, published July 20, 2026. The symposium brings together leading voices to examine how emerging artificial intelligence capabilities intersect with the established rules and obligations of international humanitarian law ("IHL") (Source).
The introduction specifically highlights Corn's contribution examining the IHL implications of generative AI-enabled military deception — that is, AI systems engineered to deceive enemy sensors and systems rather than human combatants directly. Corn characterizes these systems as "fog-of-war machines," a term that frames the central analytical challenge: whether and how existing IHL rules governing perfidy, ruses of war, and the principle of distinction apply when deception is mediated by autonomous or semi-autonomous AI rather than by human actors (Source).
The Opinio Juris symposium represents a significant forum for practitioner-oriented international law scholarship, and Corn's inclusion in its introductory framing reflects the recognized weight of his analysis on this developing question. The full symposium and Corn's contribution are available at Opinio Juris (Source).