Wareham addressed Russia's desire for a working definition and affirmed that «by
retaining meaningful human control over the use of lethal force in each individual attack we can in effect prohibit the use of fully autonomous weapons and thus achieve a preemptive ban.»
It supports the recommendation to create a Group of Governmental Experts and urges states to identify an ambitious outcome for such a «GGE» to work towards by aiming to negotiate a new CCW protocol
retaining meaningful human control of weapons systems and individual attacks.
It will work to foster greater international and regional cooperation to convince governments concerned about
retaining meaningful human control of future weapons systems to agree to an international ban.
The campaign aims to engage at the regional level to build awareness and support for a collective response and it continues to explore other avenues that could lead states to adopt a new international instrument to
retain meaningful human control over the critical functions of weapons systems.
The campaign urges states to participate in the CCW Group of Governmental Experts meeting, which opens at the United Nations (UN) on Monday, 9 April, and to commit to
retain meaningful human control of weapons systems and over individual attacks.
It is time for experts from governments to make explicit where they draw the line in increasing autonomy in weapon systems and determine how to
retain meaningful human control over weapons systems.
Binding legislation is required in the forms of a new international treaty and national laws to
retain meaningful human control over future weapons systems and individual attacks.
Not exact matches
From this rich dialogue some nascent concepts or principles are finding broad agreement, most notably the notion that
meaningful human control must be
retained over the operation of weapons systems.
Nearly all of the 90 countries participating in this debate have acknowledged the need to
retain meaningful or necessary
human control over the use of force involving autonomous weapons.
Under a section elaborating on «
control» (page 5), the authors note that «for certain types of safety - critical AI systems — especially vehicles and weapons platforms — it may be desirable to
retain some form of
meaningful human control, whether this means a
human in the loop, on the loop, or some other protocol.»
The need for
meaningful or adequate or another form of «
human control» has been central to the debate with the majority of states speaking in support of
retaining it.