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A legally binding instrument that prohibits [...] and guarantees meaningful human control over the use of force is the best way to address the threats
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AI Verified The official Human Rights Watch statement dated May 12, 2025 contains this sentence in line 604, with the omitted words "the targeting of people by autonomous weapon systems" between "prohibits" and "and guarantees." That makes the submitted wording a faithful excerpt, and the page is clearly an official Human Rights Watch statement. ([hrw.org](https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/12/statement-humanitarian-considerations-unga-meeting-lethal-autonomous-weapons)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Checked: (1) Year 2025 is correct — the HRW statement to the UNGA meeting on lethal autonomous weapons is dated May 12, 2025. (2) Relevancy: on-topic for statement 411 about promoting responsible use of AI in defense policy. (3) Author attribution: confirmed — this is Human Rights Watch's own statement. (4) Quote accuracy: the full HRW text is "a legally binding instrument that prohibits the targeting of people by autonomous weapon systems and guarantees meaningful human control over the use of force [is] the best way to address the threats"; the stored quote uses [...] to replace "the targeting of people by autonomous weapon systems," which is a faithful, accurate use of the ellipsis. (5) Vote alignment: HRW voted "for"; advocating a binding instrument with meaningful human control over force is consistent with promoting responsible use of AI in defense, so "for" is correct. (6) Source URL is the primary source (HRW's own page); WebFetch returned HTTP 403, but web search surfaced the exact page and confirmed the quoted text verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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