US Presses China, Russia to Declare AI Will Have No Control Over Nuclear Weapons Deployment

A U.S. arms control official said that Washington ‘would never defer a decision on nuclear employment to AI.’

An inert Minuteman 3 missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., on June 25, 2014. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

A senior U.S. official has called on China and Russia to align with the United States’ declaration that only humans, not artificial intelligence (AI), will have control over the use of nuclear weapons.

State Department arms control official Paul Dean said that Washington has made “a very clear and strong commitment” that the decision to deploy nuclear weapons “would only be made by a human being.”