US Presses China, Russia to Declare AI Will Have No Control Over Nuclear Weapons Deployment

A senior U.S. official has called on China and Russia to align with the United States’ declaration that only humans, not artificial intelligence (AI), will have control over the use of nuclear weapons.

State Department arms control official Paul Dean said that Washington has made “a very clear and strong commitment” that the decision to deploy nuclear weapons “would only be made by a human being.”

“We would never defer a decision on nuclear employment to AI,” Mr. Dean, the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence and Stability, said in an online briefing on May 2.

The United States “strongly stands by that statement,” he said, adding that other countries such as the United Kingdom and France have also made similar declarations.

“We would welcome a similar statement by China and the Russian Federation,” Mr. Dean said.

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