Senegal and International Partners Advocate for Regulation of AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons

What happened

At a forum in Dakar, Senegalese officials and the International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR), supported by Switzerland, reaffirmed their call for legally binding rules to ban lethal autonomous weapons guided by AI, citing unpredictable effects and risks to human rights in armed conflict.

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