The General Assembly,
KNOWING that one of the advancements a nation can make in technology is Artificial Intelligence, and that technologies such as this are used in Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems.
RECOGNIZING the immorality embedded in giving a non-sentient machine full responsibility over life and death situations on the battlefield, as it can not comprehend humane ethics and rules of war and is vulnerable to cyber-warfare.
BELIEVING that there should always be some degree of sapient intervention in offensive weapons systems.
RESOLVING that there should be international monitoring and restrictions set on LAWSs.
The GA thus declares that, except as limited by earlier resolutions that are still in place:
- Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWSs) are defined as weapons systems that operate independently from their sapient users while being used and are programmed to engage in lethal tactics.
- The World Assembly bans the manufacturing of and use of offensive LAWSs on the battlefield to all of its members.
- The World Assembly mandates that to be manufactured, sold, bought and used by its members, a LAWS must have the following qualities:
- Can explain their reasoning and decisions to sapient operators in transparent and understandable ways.
- Have responsible sapient operators who are clearly identifiable.
- Have autonomous functions that are predictable to their operators.
- Be manufactured for defensive purposes and used solely by defensive units.
- Fit into previous laws of humane weaponry.