AI offers a wide variety of opportunities and risks in the military domain.




The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting on AI in July 2023. The UN Security Council held its first meeting on Artificial Intelligence in July 2023, discussing the duality of risks and rewards inherent in emerging technology. Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the Council, urging it "to exercise leadership on Artificial Intelligence and show the way towards common measures for the transparency, accountability, and oversight of AI systems". As an enabling technology, Artificial Intelligence offers a wide variety of opportunities and risks in the military domain. A particular concern is its integration into autonomous weapons systems, which pose humanitarian, legal, strategic, and ethical concerns.

"Autonomous targeting of humans by machines is a moral line that we must not cross." - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres 

Technological advancements are often a double-edged sword, but the benefits of science and technology should not come at the expense of global and human security. United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, has often underscored the urgent need for new global governance regimes to effectively respond to the challenges posed by emerging technologies. One such technology are lethal autonomous weapons systems, which pose humanitarian, legal, strategic, and ethical concerns. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored that the autonomous targeting of humans by machines is a moral line that we must not cross. Together with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, he has called on world leaders to conclude, by 2026, a new legally binding instrument to set clear prohibitions and restrictions on lethal autonomous weapon systems. This robot was taking part in a press briefing held by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. The Campaign was formed in October 2012 and is a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that is working to ban fully autonomous weapons and thereby retain meaningful human control over the use of force.



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