UN Official Warns AI Is 'on Track to Crowd Out Human Decision-Making' in Warfare

UNIDIR director Robin Geiss said AI is "on track to crowd out human decision-making" on the battlefield and called letting machines target and kill humans a "moral red line." He warned that black-box AI in military decisions, including nuclear weapons, makes costly errors harder to prevent.

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