Magnifica Humanitas<\/a>, called for the world to \u201cdisarm AI.\u201d<\/p>\nThe risk of \u201cdiluting\u201d human responsibility <\/p>\n
According to the declaration, all companies\u2014including those contracting with government military agencies\u2014\u201cmust take every possible measure to ensure that their products and services do not cause, contribute to, or become directly linked to human rights abuses and international crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, \u201cwhere companies are unable to prevent or meaningfully mitigate such risks, they should not enter into or fulfil such contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Citing media reports and official Pentagon statements, the declaration notes that \u201cthe rapid generation of targets through AI tools has enabled an increase in the speed, scale, intensity, and destructive force of U.S. strikes against Iran.\u201d Similar assessments, it adds, can also be made regarding systems employed by the Israeli armed forces.<\/p>\n
Such technologies, the declaration argues, dilute \u201chuman responsibility in life-and-death decisions\u201d and \u201cmay help conceal international crimes behind a veneer of apparent algorithmic objectivity while simultaneously evading accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
An inhumane drift <\/p>\n
\u201cThe real-world deployment of AI indicates that it is in fact facilitating more violent, dehumanising, and destructive methods of warfare,\u201d the 226 signatories state. Among them are international organisations such as Amnesty International, as well as numerous local groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are particularly concerned,\u201d the declaration continues, \u201cthat the use of large language models (LLMs) for target generation and prioritisation is pushing military actors toward a form of warfare in which the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law\u2014including distinction, proportionality, and precaution\u2014are not, and likely cannot be, adequately respected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given the speed and scale of these technologies, together with the unreliability, bias, and often unlawfully sourced nature of the input data, the signatories warn that such systems risk facilitating human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the opacity surrounding their use seriously undermines the possibility of assigning moral or legal responsibility when mistakes occur.<\/p>\n
Meaningful human control <\/p>\n
The declaration further argues that, even when AI systems used in targeting do not make the final decision to kill, they risk becoming mechanisms for the automatic approval of large-scale killing because they rely on a false sense of objectivity and may displace human responsibility and due diligence.<\/p>\n
As a result, they can contribute to accelerating and streamlining mass killings.<\/p>\n
These systems also automate dehumanisation by \u201creducing matters of life and death to a simple chat prompt.\u201d The decision to take a human life, the signatories stress, carries profound moral and legal weight and must never be reduced to the acceptance or rejection of recommendations generated by AI systems.<\/p>\n
When militaries rely on AI to identify targets at such speed and scale that human review becomes little more than a formality, \u201cmass atrocities can, and often will, occur,\u201d in direct violation of the precautionary principle enshrined in international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n
Greater accountability and transparency <\/p>\n
The declaration signed in Geneva calls on technology companies to refrain from \u201centering into or executing contracts with military agencies or armed groups implicated in potential violations of international law, including human rights abuses and atrocity crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Governments, meanwhile, are urged to \u201chalt the use of AI tools, including large language models, in military targeting operations and ensure compliance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law.\u201d<\/p>\n
They are also called upon to \u201censure transparency regarding the current use of AI in the conduct of hostilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Council of Churches is among the 226 signatories of a document calling on technology companies and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[225,3309,65,43545,43544,4140],"class_list":["post-85327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ethics","tag-geneva","tag-magnifica-humanitas","tag-science-and-technology","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116760171354824978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}