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Binding treaties and conventions with verification or enforcement provisions requiring state ratification.
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4.1 The use of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) should respect the principles and standards of and be consistent with international humanitarian law on the use of weapons and wider international human rights law. 4.2 Governments should implement multilateral mechanisms to define, implement and monitor compliance with international agreements regarding the ethical development, use and commerce of LAWS. 4.3 Governments and organisations should refrain from developing, selling or using lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) able to select and engage targets without human control and oversight in all contexts.4.4 Organisations that develop, deploy or use AI systems should inform their employees when they are assigned to projects relating to LAWS.
Reasoning
Binding international agreement banning lethal autonomous weapons with multilateral compliance monitoring mechanisms.
Ethical Purpose and Societal Benefit
Organisations that develop, deploy or use AI systems and any national laws that regulate such use should require the purposes of such implementation to be identified and ensure that such purposes are consistent with the overall ethical purposes of beneficence and non-maleficence, as well as the other principles of the Policy Framework for Responsible AI.
3.2.2 Technical StandardsEthical Purpose and Societal Benefit > Overarching principles
2.1.3 Policies & ProceduresEthical Purpose and Societal Benefit > Work and automation
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentEthical Purpose and Societal Benefit > Environmental impact
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentEthical Purpose and Societal Benefit > The weaponisation of false or misleading information
1.2.1 Guardrails & FilteringAccountability
Organisations that develop, deploy or use AI systems and any national laws that regulate such use shall respect and adopt the eight principles of this Policy Framework for Responsible AI (or other analogous accountability principles). In all instances, humans should remain accountable for the acts and omissions of AI systems.
3.2.2 Technical StandardsOperate and Monitor
Running, maintaining, and monitoring the AI system post-deployment
Governance Actor
Regulator, standards body, or oversight entity shaping AI policy
Manage
Prioritising, responding to, and mitigating AI risks
