Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: Countries including the United States and China on Thursday sought for immediate action to regulate the development and growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare. They warned that the tech “could have unintended consequences”.
A two-day event in The Hague in which over 60 countries took the initial steps towards setting up global rules on use of AI in war, aimed at agreeing on a deal like to those on nuclear and chemical weapons.
AI use has out-of-the-world potential
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers great avenues and has out-of-the-world potential as a technology that enables, such that it enables us among other positives to make powerful use of previously unimaginable quantities of data and thus improving decision-making,” the countries stated jointly.
The countries, however, warned: “There are concerns globally over AI use in the military domain and regarding the potential unreliability of systems based on AI, the issue of human involvement, vagueness with regards to potential unintended consequences and liability.”
Around 2,000 delegates, who represented governments, civil society and tech firms, were also in agreement to launch a global inquiry to provide clarity on uses of AI in warfare and establish specific guidelines.
