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Recommendation 3
3
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Lead efforts to reach consensus on autonomous weapons and create an international instrument.
Recommendation
We recommend that the UK Government takes the lead in efforts to reach a consensus on the use of autonomous weapon systems and artificial intelligence on the battlefield and the creation of an international instrument on their use. (Recommendation, Paragraph 10) 48
Government response summary AI-generated
The government response discusses diplomatic influence, multilateral engagement, and enhancing IHL adherence for humanitarian access, but it does not address the recommendation regarding autonomous weapon systems and artificial intelligence on the battlefield.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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13. We agree with recommendation 1. The UK is committed to developing and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in weapons systems safely, legally and ethically and oppose the creation and use of any AI-enabled military capabilities that would operate without context-appropriate human involvement. We have set out more detail on how we maintain this in our response 1 to the report by the House of Lords AI in Weapon Systems Committee in February 2024. 14. The UK continues to support the current mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) “to formulate, by consensus, a set of elements of an instrument, without prejudging its nature, and other possible measures to address emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)” and is demonstrating leadership through working proactively to fulfil that mandate, working with a wide range of different states. 15. The Government maintains that the CCW remains the appropriate forum to consider the issue of emerging technologies in the area of LAWS. It is inclusive, expert and consensus based which means that as a forum its conclusions will have the most meaningful impact.
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