Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks
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A moral veto on lethal autonomy from the Vatican raises the political cost of deploying fully autonomous weapons, just as Geneva negotiators head into a pivotal round. Defense and dual-use AI teams should assume tighter human-in-the-loop and auditability requirements are coming and design architectures that can survive a future prohibition on unsupervised targeting.
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