Comment by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

Finally, to avoid that open-source models are accessed and retrofitted for malicious purposes a potential solution is to create self-destruct codes AI Unverifiable source
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AI Unverifiable Could not verify the exact quote. The source URL (disarmament.unoda.org/en/responsible-innovation-ai/blog) returned 403 Forbidden when fetched directly. Multiple targeted web searches for the phrase 'self-destruct codes' in connection with UNODA, open-source AI models and retrofitting did not return matching content - search engines surfaced UNODA/SIPRI's responsible innovation initiative and academic 'self-destructing models' research, but not this specific UNODA blog passage. The URL points to a generic blog index rather than a specific post, no year is provided, and the quote is mid-sentence ('Finally, to avoid that...'). Self-destruct mechanisms for AI models is a real academic concept (e.g., Henderson et al. 2022), so the quote is plausible but not confirmed. Vote 'abstain' is reasonable for UNODA, which generally surveys options rather than advocating bans. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 13d ago
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