Government of the United Kingdom

The UK remains fully committed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Under the UK’s chairmanship in 2017, High Contracting Parties agreed essential financial reforms. But the Convention will only become financially stable if all High Contracting Parties pay their contributions and arrears promptly. The UK welcomes the progress made this year by the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. We support continuing the GGE’s current mandate into 2019. We continue to oppose a legal instrument or ban that would prejudice legitimate technological advances. We look forward to further work through the GGE on Guiding Principles and the role of existing processes, structures, industry standards and national and international legal frameworks. (2018) source Unverified

Participating countries committed, depending on their circumstances, to the development of appropriate state-led evaluation and safety research while participating companies agreed that they would support the next iteration of their models to undergo appropriate independent evaluation and testing. Multiple participants suggested that existing voluntary commitments would need to be put on a legal or regulatory footing in due course. It was suggested that there might be certain circumstances in which governments should apply the principle that models must be proven to be safe before they are deployed, with a presumption that they are otherwise dangerous. (2023) source Unverified