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to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force; [...] It is a world that rejects the automation of killing and instead, promotes the principle of human control over emerging technologies that affect our lives, livelihoods and relations with each other.
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the statement’s substance: it calls for meaningful human control in any use of force and explicitly says the world should “reject the automation of killing.” That strongly implies support for banning autonomous lethal weapons. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote calls for “meaningful human control” and “rejects the automation of killing,” but it does not explicitly say autonomous lethal weapons should be banned outright. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The supplied PDF contains the first passage in the “Mission” section (“to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force;”) and the second passage in the “Vision” section (“It is a world that rejects the automation of killing and instead, promotes the principle of human control over emerging technologies that affect our lives, livelihoods and relations with each other.”) on page 2; the [...] is a permissible omission between those passages. The resource page for this report identifies it as the “2020 Annual Report” by Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and dates it 01 | 12 | 2021, so the stored author, date, and source URL are consistent. ([stopkillerrobots.org](https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SKR0300-2020-Annual-Report-FINAL-for-web.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
Disputed The wording is sourced from the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, but the submitted quote is not verbatim as written. In the 2020 annual report, the first passage ends with a semicolon: “to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force;” and the second continues beyond the quoted endpoint: “It is a world that rejects the automation of killing and instead, promotes the principle of human control...” The official Vision and Values page repeats the same full text. Because the quote changes punctuation and truncates the second sentence without marking the omission, I would not confirm it as an exact quote. ([stopkillerrobots.org](https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SKR0300-2020-Annual-Report-FINAL-for-web.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 21d ago
AI Verified Checked: (1) Author attribution — Campaign to Stop Killer Robots; correct, the source is the organization's own 2020 Annual Report. (2) Quote content — WebFetch on the source PDF returned HTTP 403, but web search corroborated both distinctive phrases verbatim as core campaign positions ("to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force" and "rejects the automation of killing"), matching the wording on stopkillerrobots.org's own policy pages. (3) Source — stopkillerrobots.org-hosted 2020 Annual Report PDF; primary source. (4) Year 2020 — consistent (the document is the 2020 Annual Report). (5) Vote alignment — statement "Promoting responsible use of AI in defense policy", vote "for": the Campaign demands meaningful human control and accountability over the use of force (responsible use), so "for" is the correct direction. Quote is from 2020 but remains relevant, so it is kept. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 25d ago
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