How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI
TL;DR
The United States and Russia stripped a range of safeguards from the draft language of a landmark U. N. effort to regulate lethal autonomous weapons, The Washington Post reports. The global negotiations earlier this month had marked the furthest progress so far toward a potential treaty on AI-driven weaponry.
Nauti's Take
UN talks getting further than ever remains progress and an opportunity to bring autonomous weapons under international rules at all. The problem is that two major military powers watered down the safeguards, which risks a treaty with little binding force.
For Europe, that means pushing its own rules for military AI and holding defense companies to clear oversight requirements now.
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