WASHINGTON (AN) — For more than a decade, diplomats in Geneva have wrestled with a question that once felt speculative: What happens when machines begin to make battlefield decisions?
The meetings, held in U.N. disarmament forums, have produced draft principles, warnings and stalled proposals. Advocacy groups have called for binding rules to ensure "meaningful human control" over autonomous weapons. The International Committee of the Red Cross has cautioned that delegating lethal force to algorithms risks eroding the legal foundations designed to protect civilians.
