SINGAPORE: Countries in conflicts need to ensure that weapons, including those used to target objects, “remain under full human control” even as artificial intelligence shakes things up, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday (Jun 2).
This is as the future of warfare will be largely influenced by the accelerated development of new technologies and the addition of AI, said ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric.
Such advanced technology is likely to extend to how operations are conducted, what weapons will look like and how they will be employed, she said.
“What we are very concerned about is the loss of human control when artificial intelligence comes into play,” she told CNA on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue.
She added that beyond human control, full cognitive capacity is needed.
“We cannot allow machine learning to influence and accelerate the range and the duration of military operations, without a constant full influence of the human capacity to define who is being targeted,” she said.
“In short, what we demand is a new regulatory framework that will ban weapons that are becoming unpredictable due to the integration of artificial intelligence and weapons that are potentially unpredictable, but still can target humans,” she added.
