Overview

• Pakistan urged that artificial intelligence, especially in military uses, be governed under the UN Charter and international law and called for prohibiting systems that operate without meaningful human control.
• UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that humans must retain authority over life-and-death decisions and pushed to conclude a legally binding ban on lethal autonomous weapons by next year, citing cyber and disinformation threats.
• Pakistan asserted that a recent India–Pakistan military exchange involved autonomous munitions and dual-capable high-speed cruise missiles used by a nuclear-armed state, a claim presented to underscore escalation risks.
• Experts including Yejin Choi warned that AI progress is concentrated among a few firms and countries and urged inclusive governance, linguistic and cultural diversity, and capacity-building for developing nations.
• Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong cautioned that AI use in nuclear and unmanned systems could erode accountability and insisted that decisions of life and death must never be delegated to machines.