The final international conference was held to discuss the regulation of AI weapons, in which machines automatically recognize and attack targets using AI = artificial intelligence. The gap between positions was wide, and discussions will continue in the future.
For four years, representatives and experts from the member countries of the CCW = Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons have held regular meetings on the regulation of AI weapons.
The final meeting of the conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland from the 2nd of this month, and on the 8th of the final day, a report summarizing the discussions so far was adopted.
However, at the meeting, countries that were active in regulation and Russia and India, which were reluctant to regulate from the standpoint of promoting the development of weapons, were in sharp conflict, and the United States and others also opposed legally binding regulations. Therefore, the conclusions that went into the report were not included, and the discussion was to continue.
Members of the NGOs who attended the conference complained strongly that "a small number of countries developing AI weapons are hindering negotiations on legally binding regulations."
Regarding AI weapons, although each country recognizes the need for some kind of regulation in order to prevent the situation where humans are out of control, there is a big gap in the position regarding the concrete way of regulation, and the future of negotiations cannot be foreseen. Is continuing.