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At an international peace gathering in Assisi, speakers raised the risks of AI in military decision-making and called for stronger oversight. The discussions took place from 25 to 27 October; Inter Press Service’s Katsuhiro Asagiri reports on them in a story published on 11 November.

AI researcher Tiziana Catarci warned that a person’s formal place in a decision process does not guarantee meaningful control. She called for prohibiting autonomous weapons that can make lethal decisions without it. Soka Gakkai’s Yoshiyuki Nagaoka also argued for international rules against systems that independently select and attack human targets. The gathering produced no single regulatory blueprint, Asagiri writes. The argument is more specific than the familiar call to “keep a human in the loop”: the human must be able to understand and challenge the machine’s recommendation.

Discuss: For military AI, should international rules prohibit systems that select and attack targets independently, or can meaningful human control be guaranteed another way?

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