“States should accept nothing less than an ambitious mandate to negotiate a protocol on autonomous weapons by the end of 2027.” That’s the rallying cry from the Future of Life Institute, a US-based think tank that works to steer transformative technologies, especially artificial intelligence, away from large-scale risks. In the run-up to the upcoming review conference in Geneva on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Institute notes that Peru, Indonesia, Brazil, and more than 30 other states “have called for negotiations on a legally binding instrument.” So has Pope Leo XIV, who has urged “States meeting in Geneva in November to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons.” For more on this issue, click here: https://autonomousweapons.news/p/countdown-to-the-ccw-review-conference
