UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems operating without effective human judgment and control dramatically increase the risks of military miscalculation and rapid conflict escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWithout effective human judgement and control, these systems increase the risks of miscalculation and escalation, lower the threshold for the use of force, and erode compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL),\u201d Pakistani delegate Husham Ahmed told the General Assembly\u2019s First Committee, which is examining how the malicious use of information and communications technology (ICT) threatens global peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmed, a counsellor at the Pakistani Mission to UN offices in Geneva, emphasized that AI-enabled targeting and decision-support tools are no longer a future prospect but are already being deployed at scale in active global conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this regard, he called for inclusive, UN-led governance frameworks to prevent the technology from compressing military response windows to dangerous levels, particularly in regions where conventional and nuclear capabilities are closely entangled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese dangers are acute in regions of close conventional-nuclear entanglement, where one nuclear-armed State has deployed autonomous loitering munitions and dual-capable missiles against another,\u201d the Pakistani delegate said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe decision to employ nuclear weapons must always remain in human hands,\u201d Husham Ahmed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe risks of AI-enabled capabilities in areas of close conventional-nuclear entanglement must be holistically addressed. Military AI governance must be anchored in the UN; initiatives outside the UN cannot replace its legitimacy, inclusivity, and universality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, Egriselda L\u00f3pez (El Salvador), the Chair of the Global Mechanism on developments in the field of information and communications technologies and advancing responsible State behaviour in the use of information and communications technologies, said, \u201cThe establishment of the global mechanism is a milestone over more than two decades of intergovernmental debates on the security of ICT\u201d at the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lopez noted that threats related to ICTs continue to evolve and affect States across all regions, regardless of their level of technological development. Their impact extends beyond digital systems, disrupting essential services, hindering economic development and undermining international peace and security, she warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAddressing these challenges requires the collective attention and participation of all States in an open and inclusive forum,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems operating without effective human judgment and control dramatically increase the risks of military miscalculation and rapid conflict escalation. \u201cWithout effective human judgement and control, these systems increase the risks of miscalculation and escalation, lower the threshold for the use of force, and erode compliance with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,8],"tags":[35,34],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-pakistan","category-technology","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"\n