Paul Dean, a United States official in the State Department, asked China and Russia to declare that only humans – and not artificial intelligence (AI) – will make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.
Officials in China and Russia have not immediately issued a comment.
A dizzying array of AI-assisted tools is under development or already in use in the defence sector.
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