aceRussia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons
Plans to fill a gap in the global governance of autonomous weapons are in jeopardy as a group of nations led by Russia and the US move to use a UN conference this month to block proposals to negotiate a legally binding set of rules. The scale of the opposition will become clear at a diplomatic retreat starting on Friday before the seventh review conference on “certain conventional weapons” in Geneva due to be attended by 128 countries from 16 to 20 November. The review conference is seen as the key moment when t…
Russia, the US and Israel are pushing against a timetable for a legally binding treaty on autonomous weapons, even though 163 states voted at a UN committee that they were ready to negotiate, so AI weapons could stay unregulated.
The outcome of the Geneva conference is not yet known, and the article describes the scale of opposition as something that will become clear at the diplomatic retreat and conference.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-06
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