The bill would prohibit the use of federal funds to launch nuclear weapons using an autonomous weapon system that is not subject to meaningful human control. Representative Image / AP
A group of US lawmakers has proposed a bill to prevent artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous systems from launching nuclear weapons, as fears arise over the potential danger of AI making decisions on its own.
A group of US lawmakers has proposed a bill to prevent artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous systems from launching nuclear weapons, as fears arise over the potential danger of AI making decisions on its own.
Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representatives Ted Lu (D-CA), Don Baer (D-VA), and Ken Buck (R-CO) have introduced the ‘Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act’ in the US. The Verge reports.
The bill would “prohibit the use of federal funds to launch nuclear weapons using an autonomous weapon system that is not subject to meaningful human control”.
“In all cases, the US will maintain a ‘human loop’ for all functions critical to informing and executing decisions by the President to begin and end nuclear weapons employment,” read the bill.
The senators feel it is the sense of Congress that the use of lethal, autonomous nuclear weapons systems that are not subject to meaningful human control may not properly comply with international humanitarian law and that “any decision to launch nuclear weapons Should not be done by AI”.
An earlier ‘National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’ report recommended a ban on the launch of autonomous nuclear weapons, “not only to prevent this from happening inside the US government but to encourage similar commitments from China and Russia.” For”, the report noted.
A massive nuclear war could result in millions of deaths, arson, radioactive fallout contamination, agricultural failure, and catastrophic climate consequences.
The bill asserts, “The nuclear command and control process requires compliance with international humanitarian law, human control and human legal adjudication.”
The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review states that “in all cases, the US will maintain a ‘human loop’ for all actions critical of making and executing decisions by the President to begin and end nuclear weapons employment”.
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