Possible Risks of the Integration of Artificial Intelligence Into Command, Control and Communications Systems of Nuclear Weapons

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99 General and complete disarmament, published in 2025.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Artificial Intelligence Confidence-Building Measures Military Technology Nuclear Weapons

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4 operative paragraphs

Demands that, pending the total elimination of nuclear weapons, human control and oversight is maintained over command, control and communications systems of nuclear weapons, including those that integrate artificial intelligence technology;

Pending the total elimination of nuclear weapons, urges those nuclear-weapon States that have not yet done so, to adopt and publish national policies and doctrines explicitly affirming and operationalizing that command, control and communications systems of nuclear weapons that integrate artificial intelligence will remain subject to human control and oversight and that such systems will not autonomously initiate decisions on the use of nuclear weapons, and, without prejudice to national security, to voluntarily inform relevant forums about these measures and implementation mechanisms;

Stresses the urgent need to address and develop, within the respective mandates of the disarmament machinery, meetings of parties to relevant treaties and other related multilateral and regional forums, common understandings, confidence-building measures and other appropriate measures to ensure that, pending the total elimination of nuclear weapons, human control and oversight is maintained over command, control and communications systems of nuclear weapons;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item entitled “Possible risks of the integration of artificial intelligence into command, control and communications systems of nuclear weapons”.

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