Stop Killer Robot calls the Pentagon’s directive ‘the most backwards position seen from any state in years’
Just when you think the US is serious about being helpful, it announces the most backwards position seen from any state, in years.
This Political Declaration is terrible & worse than the US's stated policy in multilateral discussions at the UN. #REAIMhttps://t.co/2ik9HCF4gW
— Ousman Noor (@ousmannoor) February 16, 2023
As their name subtly suggests, the Stop Killer Robots organization strongly opposes the expansion of AI in weapons systems and wasn’t pleased with the outcome of the summit. The organization said the widely agreed on call to action was “vague and incoherent” and failed to apply any real rules or limitations on AI military use or development, which was kinda the whole point of the summit.
As for the United States, Stop Killer Robots said its declaration, “falls drastically short,” with the organization’s government relations manager calling it, “the most backwards position seen from any state, in years.”
“This ‘Political Declaration’ is toxic and is an attempt to radically undermine global effort towards establishing a new Treaty on Autonomous Weapons Systems,” Stop Killer Robots Government Relations Manager Ousman Noor said in a statement. “States should avoid it entirely.” Noor went on to say the declaration failed to prohibit weapons systems that are designed to target humans and also failed to establish clear restrictions on systems that can be used without human control.
“It contains no prohibitions on systems that cannot be used with meaningful human control and fails to recognize the need to prohibit systems that target humans,” Stop Killer Robots said. “It does not identify what types of limits are needed (temporal/spatial/duration of operation/scale of force etc.) and fails to give expression to the widely recognized need to ensure predictability, understandability, explainability, reliability and traceability.”
