U.S., Russia Remove Restrictions on AI Use in Autonomous Weapons

The U.S. and Russia successfully lobbied to remove several restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons from a UN draft. The removed provisions included requirements for human review of AI-selected targets, ethical considerations, and system predictability and reliability. The two countries spent around 15 hours on the final day of negotiations to soften the language. This is the first significant attempt by the UN to establish global rules for lethal autonomous weapons, although the document is not yet legally binding.