The Declaration “Humanity at the Threshold: A Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons” adopted by Participants of the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly.
- It calls for an international treaty to ban autonomous systems from accessing nuclear launches while emphasizing that the threat is also not so far-fetched.
Six Principles of the Declaration
- Disarming the next arms race: Calling for restraint and governance to prevent an AI arms race.
- Responsible development: Ensuring AI aligns with international law and human rights.
- Responsible use of AI: Promoting AI for human well-being while restricting malicious and reckless uses.
- Responsible governance: Establishing shared mechanisms for coordinated slowdowns and verification of frontier AI.
- Responsible leadership: Empowering youth through education and intergenerational partnership.
- Nuclear disarmament: Calling for verifiable, irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons and lowered alert levels.
Concerns Associated with use of AI in Nuclear Weapons
- Existential Risk: through the integration of AI into nuclear and cyber-physical systems.
- Loss of Human Hesitation: Autonomous AI battle systems compress decision times eliminating the human moral pause that prevented disaster. (Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962).
- "Black Box": AI algorithms are opaque and prone to hallucinations where a simple system error could trigger unintended nuclear retaliation.
- Power Concentration: Monopolization of AI infrastructure by a few nations deepens global power imbalances and increases security risks for non-nuclear states.
