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[🇪🇸 Congreso, Nov 2024] Promoting responsible use of AI in defense policy

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Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church

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We must also keep a watchful eye on the development and application of artificial intelligence in both military and civilian contexts, to ensure that they do not absolve humans of responsibility for their choices and do not exacerbate the tragedy of ...
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the i...
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Frank Bradley
U.S. Navy Admiral; Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

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[We] have to be very careful about how we come to [AI's] employment and its inspiration into the delivery of lethality. [...] We, as humans, have to have the confidence that it's going to deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered.
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Wang Yi
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China; Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission

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We should uphold a people-centered approach and the principle of AI for good, support the U.N. as the main channel, prevent the widening of the digital divide, and set clear guardrails for the military use and governance of AI.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
U.S. Senator from New York; member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees

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Secretary Hegseth's attack on AI safety procedures contradicts common sense and undermines our national security. [...] Removing guardrails doesn't produce efficiency; it guarantees a future of catastrophic harm. We must have clear AI safety procedur...
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Penny Wong
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

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AI’s [...] use in nuclear weapons and unmanned systems challenges the future of humanity. We must establish standards for the use of AI [...] responsible and ethical.
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Zaqy Mohamad
Senior Minister of State for Defence

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The problem with today’s environment is that innovation has outpaced governance. AI is rewriting the rules of warfare, but if we do not write the rules in warfare, we risk losing humanity. Without guardrails, we risk escalation and miscalculation. We...
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Ignacio Gil Lázaro
Spanish politician and jurist

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Artificial intelligence presents diverse, multidisciplinary challenges and different fields of application, but its role in defence and security policies is, and will continue to be, growing. Our amendment shares the thrust of this motion and seeks, ...
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Carlos Rojas García
Spanish politician and deputy

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In this non-legislative motion we ask that the use of artificial intelligence be promoted to improve the security of all Spaniards. It is obvious that artificial intelligence is here to stay, and we must make a firm national effort to take advantage ...
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Carlos Javier Floriano Corrales
Spanish MP, People’s Party

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La incorporación de la inteligencia artificial al sector de la defensa y de la seguridad no es una opción, es una realidad, una necesidad estratégica. La capacidad que tiene la inteligencia artificial para procesar datos, anticipar escenarios y, por ...
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Defence Ethics Committee (France)
French defence ethics advisory body

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Research into artificial intelligence systems intended for offensive and defensive use must be conducted in a fully responsible manner.
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Víctor Javier Ruiz de Diego
Spanish MP, PSOE

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As the spokesperson of the People’s Party says in this motion, we are dealing with a very important matter. I think that this Chamber is even setting up a working group on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, at the initiative of the People’s P...
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State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China
Chinese government information office

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The rapid development and widespread application of AI technology has profoundly altered the way people work and live, brought new geopolitical uncertainties, and catalyzed a new wave of military transformation. Recent regional conflicts have demonst...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine

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Now companies are already working on drones that can shoot down other drones. And it’s only a matter of time – and not much – before drones are fighting drones, attacking critical infrastructure, and targeting people – all by themselves, fully autono...
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Bill Blair
Former Canadian Minister of National Defence

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These new threats are driving AI innovation within our Department of National Defence and our Armed Forces, and Canada remains fully committed to the responsible use of AI, through our endorsement of the Blueprint for Action.
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Kim Yong-hyun
South Korean Defence Minister

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While [...] it [...] can cause harm through misuse. We must establish thorough standards and norms regarding the military use of AI.
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Cho Tae-yul
South Korean Foreign Minister

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Today’s military AI goes beyond mere imitation. We must discuss the governance framework that will anchor our guardrails [...] for responsible AI.
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Heng Chee How
Singapore Senior Minister of State (Defence)

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It is thus important to have platforms like REAIM [...] to shape norms on the responsible use of such technologies [...] in the military domain.
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Zena Assaad
ANU Senior Research Fellow

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[...] its use in warfare will continue to expand. These technologies will need to meet international legal requirements and regulations.
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Ng Eng Hen
Singapore minister for defence (2011–2025)

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This Blueprint represents a step forward [...] to implement responsible AI within our militaries, ensuring appropriate human decision making at crisis points.
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United States Department of State
U.S. foreign affairs department

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Military use of AI can and should be ethical, responsible, and enhance international security. Military use of AI must be in compliance with [...] law.
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Sasha Baker
U.S. defense policy official

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The United States has been a global leader in responsible military use of AI and autonomy, with the Department of Defense championing ethical AI principles and policies on autonomy in weapon systems for over a decade. The political declaration build...
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Ministry of Defence (Spain)
Spain’s government defence ministry

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Data and information, tools and applications enabled by AI will be used to improve the understanding and capabilities of people, not with the aim of replacing them, but to complement them and make it easier for them to add greater value to their acti...
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Frank Kendall III
Former U.S. Air Force Secretary

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I care a lot about civil society and the rule of law, including laws of armed conflict. Our policies are written around compliance with those laws. You don't enforce laws against machines; you enforce them against people. And I think our challenge is...
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Izumi Nakamitsu
UN disarmament chief

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The use of AI in the military domain, in conjunction with both weapons-related functions (such as targeting and attack) and non-weapons-related functions (such as image recognition, processing, and analyzing), raises policy, legal, ethical, and human...
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Wopke Hoekstra
Dutch politician; former foreign minister

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By ensuring the responsible development, deployment and use of AI in the military domain, within the parameters of international law.
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Bonnie Jenkins
U.S. arms control official

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We invite all states to join us in implementing international norms, as it pertains to military development and use of AI
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U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. government defense department

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DoD personnel will exercise appropriate levels of judgment and care, while remaining responsible for the development, deployment, and use of AI capabilities.
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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
Coalition to ban killer robots

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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 ...
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Annabel MacNicoll Goldie
Scottish politician and life peer

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There is no doubt that the increasing adoption of innovative technologies is changing how military operations are conducted. The noble Lords’ analysis—that we need to be particularly mindful of the legal ramifications—is hard to dispute. From the eng...
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Lloyd J. Austin III
U.S. Secretary of Defense

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But ultimately, AI systems only work when they are based in trust. We have a principled approach to AI that anchors everything that this Department does. We call this Responsible AI, and it’s the only kind of AI that we do. [...] So our use of AI...
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NATO
International military alliance

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As such, it sets standards of responsible use of AI technologies, in accordance with international law and NATO’s values.
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Dana Deasy
Former U.S. DoD CIO

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Ethics remain at the forefront of everything the department does with AI technology [...] guide the testing, fielding and scaling of AI-enabled capabilities.
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Nand Mulchandani
Acting JAIC Director (2020)

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for the specific national security applications [...] our very public commitment to developing safe and ethical, responsible AI technology
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Defense Innovation Board
Pentagon advisory board on innovation

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Human beings should exercise appropriate levels of judgment and remain responsible for the development, deployment, use, and outcomes of DoD AI systems.
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John N.T. "Jack" Shanahan.
JAIC director and Air Force lieutenant general

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In terms of culture, in DOD, we need to match the rate of institutional change to the rate of change of commercial technology. As I said earlier, this is a multi-generation commitment. [...] We face hard decisions ahead in the department about striki...
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Mark T. Esper
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

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The United States, on the other hand, will offer a vision of AI that upholds American values and protects our fundamental belief in liberty and human rights. We will harness the potential of AI to create a force fit for our time. We believe there's ...
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Evan Ackerman
IEEE Spectrum robotics senior editor

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We’re not going to be able to prevent autonomous armed robots from existing. The real question that we should be asking is this: Could autonomous armed robots perform better than armed humans in combat, resulting in fewer casualties on both sides? T...
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Michael C. Horowitz
Political scientist; former DoD official

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Advocates of a ban on autonomous weapons often claim that the technology today isn’t good enough to discriminate reliably between civilian and military targets, and therefore can’t comply with the laws of war. In some situations, that’s true. For oth...
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Jacobo González-Robatto Perote
VOX MP

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We are addressing an issue that will indeed shape the future of security and defense in Spain. In a context of growing global competition, where actors like China and Russia are betting very heavily on military artificial intelligence, Spain cannot a...
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Jake Laperruque
CDT deputy director

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Principles for responsible use of AI technologies should be applied broadly across development and deployment. In particular, Government use of AI should be: (1) Built upon proper training data; (2) Subject to independent testing and high performance...
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Alka Patel
Chief of Responsible AI, JAIC

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We've also recently had the third convening of the AI partnership for defense [...] responsible AI is at the heart of those conversations.
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Adam Schiff
U.S. Senator from California; former House Intelligence Committee chair

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Over the past few weeks, it has become even more clear that there is an urgent need for guardrails on how AI is used by the Defense Department. [...] Whenever a technology has the capability of taking a human life, there needs to be a human operator ...
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Montse Mínguez García
Spanish MP, PSOE

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Continue raising awareness about AI’s role in order to improve its legitimacy and the acceptance of greater investments, while at the same time taking into account the inherent dual-use aspect of AI. Continue coordinating interministerial policies a...
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Joe Biden
U.S. president, former senator

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This memorandum provides [...] direction on appropriately harnessing artificial intelligence [...] while protecting human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, and safety [...] in AI-enabled national security activities.
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Alex Karp
Palantir Technologies CEO

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Prioritize people, place humanity first. [...] AI should empower workers, help safeguard consumers, and enhance national security. Ethical AI is also more effective AI.
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National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
U.S. federal advisory commission

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World military powers both large and small are pursuing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled and autonomous weapon systems. Such systems have the potential to help commanders make faster, better, and more relevant decisions. They will enable weapon s...
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