WILPF was one of the 200 signatures on this important joint statement to oppose Artificial Intelligence (AI) in warfare, read the full statement and post by WILPF’s Reaching Critical Will, disarmament program, here.
The statement notes “Not for the first time, we are seeing Palestine used as a laboratory for experimental and dehumanizing methods of warfare, including through corporate tech partnerships with Israeli military agencies. Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and other tech companies may have contributed to or enabled the Israeli government’s access to mass data storage, processing and analysis systems that are aiding their ongoing destruction and genocide in Gaza, which has so far led to the killing of at least 72,000 Palestinians.”
The signatory organizations call for:
Tech companies to:
* Refrain from entering into or fulfilling contracts with military agencies or armed groups that commit possible violations of international law, including human rights violations and atrocity crimes;
* Refrain from selling, transferring, servicing, or exporting AI decision support systems for military kill chains and human targeting, including target generation systems and remote biometric surveillance; and
* Refrain from selling or exporting AI decision-support systems for non-lethal purposes, including multimodal AI models such as LLMs, for use in military decision-making processes, until genuine accountability, meaningful human control, oversight, and transparency is made possible in line with principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
And states to:
* Halt the use of AI tools, including large language models, in the conduct of military targeting, and ensure adherence to principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law; and
* Provide transparency on how AI is currently being used in the conduct of hostilities.
Learn more about WILPF’s Disarmament Reaching Critical program here.
