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Will We Let AI Kill People?

Weapons that can choose and attack targets without a human deciding are already being used. There are still no international rules for them. In November, governments meet at the UN to decide what happens next.

Most people don’t know this is happening. We made this film so you would.

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Most countries want rules on AI weapons. So why don’t we have any?

At the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), every decision needs consensus, so any single country can veto progress. For over a decade, Russia and the USA have been stalling the talks.

There’s a way around it: the UN General Assembly, where the majority decides. Diplomats and activists are fighting to get the talks there before it’s too late. The next round is at the CCW Review Conference in Geneva this November.

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Not a good move.

AI weapons are spreading fast, from drones to ground vehicles and submarines. Anna Hehir of Future of Life Institute @FLI_org warns that in a world this tense, it takes just one algorithmic error to spark a chain of events between nuclear powers.

She is also clear that a treaty would make a real difference. We never thought we would ban chemical and biological weapons, and we did.

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What happens when cartels get AI weapons?

“Imagine if there’s access to it by rebels, by terrorists. This will be a catastrophe.”

Dr. Lansana Gberie, UN Ambassador of Sierra Leone, Paula Peraza Aguilar, Costa Rican diplomat, and Alexander Kmentt, Austrian diplomat, warn that without rules, AI weapons won’t stay in the hands of states.

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