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US and Russia strip safeguards from UN autonomous weapons talks
Original: In Switzerland, UN negotiations for a treaty on lethal autonomous weapons saw U.S. and Russian diplomats remove several
During UN negotiations in Switzerland on a treaty covering lethal autonomous weapons, diplomats from the United States and Russia removed several safeguard provisions for AI-based arms in the final sessions. The weakened text raises concerns that fully autonomous weapons could be developed without meaningful international limits, disappointing arms-control advocates who had pushed for stronger human-control requirements.
Why now: Diplomatic clashes over autonomous weapons safeguards at the UN are alarming arms-control and AI watchers.
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