US and Russia Strip Human-Review Requirement From UN Autonomous-Weapons Treaty Draft
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US and Russian diplomats spent roughly 15 hours in Geneva stripping human-review, predictability, reliability and design-standard language from the draft UN treaty on lethal autonomous weapons, and narrowed its scope from all international law to humanitarian law only. A record 76 nations back turning the nonbinding text into a binding treaty, but consensus rules let the two blockers effectively veto that path when diplomats return in November.
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