None
EN
AI in the Military Domain: Multilateralism at a Crossroad
['Tobias Vestner', 'Simon Cleobury', 'Asaf Lubin', 'O. Y.', 'Just Security', 'Andrew Leber', 'Alasdair Phillips-Robins', 'Mollie Feng', 'K. Sabeel Rahman', 'Sam Berger']
Just Security
Efforts towards effective multilateral governance have the potential to specify what is – and is not – permissible under international law with regard to AI in the military domain (AIMD).
Multilateral dialogue on military AI finds itself at a crossroad, notably as current efforts tend to be overlapping yet dispersed, with several different potential routes: either continuing with the current fragmented dialogues or pulling the multilateral process under one comprehensive umbrella.
Specifically, they have the potential to streamline and universalize intergovernmental dialogue under a new, consolidated forum on global governance and international norms on military AI and related issues.
This shows that the REAIM co-sponsors still see value in these summits’ power to convene a range of stakeholders, including importantly the private sector, to discuss military AI.
However, unlike the United States, it was present at the informal exchanges and submitted a working paper.