2024-05-01 02:36:34
For the sake of humanity, the foreign minister urged the international community not to accept any new weapons, including automatic weapons. Hasan Mahmud.
He made the call during a high-level panel discussion on the challenge of regulating automatic weapons systems at the International Conference on ‘Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation’ at Vienna’s Hofburg Palace on Monday (April 29).
This information was informed in a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The foreign minister said that it is necessary to focus on the beneficial application of artificial intelligence for the benefit of mankind, including agriculture, medicine, space exploration, climate change, employment creation, and not on weapons systems to wipe out humanity.
Highlighting the importance of controlling the use of weapons on people. Hasan asked, what will happen to international peace and security if non-state and terrorist organizations have access to artificial intelligence automatic weapons?
He advocated global policy-making to effectively control automatic weapons systems and said it is desirable to judiciously apply appropriate international laws to both lethal artificial intelligence and automatic weapons. The foreign minister highlighted the precarious situation in Gaza and warned the international community against opening new fronts of conflict and tension.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo Andre Tinoco, Norwegian State Secretary Eivind Vad Peterson and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljarić Eger joined as co-panelists.
More than eight hundred representatives of more than 120 UN bodies, rights groups and international organizations are participating in this conference organized by the Ministry of European and International Affairs of Austria.