US media: US and Russia jointly revise AI weapons agreement, removing multiple security safeguard provisions.

BlockBeats news, September 27 - Earlier this month, hundreds of diplomats gathered in a massive United Nations conference room in Switzerland, striving to push for a strong treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons. This would be the first agreement to regulate the use of lethal AI weapons.

However, on the final day of negotiations, the talks turned into a fierce standoff. According to three people familiar with the negotiations, over the following approximately 15 hours, US and Russian diplomats made intensive modifications to the agreement text, deleting a series of provisions aimed at ensuring the safe use of AI weapons.

The sources said that both the US and Russia removed language requiring the relevant systems to operate in a "predictable" and "reliable" manner, and removed a provision requiring ethical considerations in the use of AI weapons.

They also said that the US and Russian teams deleted a clause requiring human review of AI-generated military targets before launching strikes. The shrinking of this agreement's content reveals how the US and Russia are committed to weakening global regulatory rules on lethal AI weapons; meanwhile, the Pentagon is accelerating the integration of this emerging technology into its battlefield strategy. (The Washington Post)