Call it “bots on the ground.” One in three Germans think their country should allow artificial intelligence to make life-or-death decisions on the battle field, according to The POLITICO Poll . A third of respondents in Germany said they favor AI systems to be used in weapons in place of human decision makers, even if these systems are less transparent, the poll showed. The results suggest a cultural shift, as the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz no longer explicitly excludes lethal