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Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security: Report of the Secretary-General (A/80/78)
Record UN-12 · A/80/78
- Issued by
- United Nations Secretary-General, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 79/239 (prepared with the Office for Disarmament Affairs)
- Jurisdiction
- United Nations
- Level · region
- International · Global
- Published / adopted
- 2025-06-05
- Last updated
- 2026-02-04
- Language
- English
- Official identifier
- A/80/78
Summary
Report of the Secretary-General submitted under a mandate in resolution 79/239 on the opportunities and challenges posed to international peace and security by the application of AI in the military domain, with specific focus on areas other than lethal autonomous weapons systems. It is based on the views of Member States, which it annexes together with those of international and regional organizations, the ICRC, civil society, the scientific community and industry. It covers the convergence of AI with other technologies, including information and communication technologies, biology, chemistry and nuclear weapons.
Safety topics
national security & militarycatastrophic riskinternational cooperation
Open question
date_published is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; date_last_updated is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; date_published has no evidence Issue #102
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Status notes
Resolution 80/58 (UN-11) took up the report for the informal exchanges in Geneva in June 2026: UNODA's agenda for 15-17 June 2026 opened with an overview of the report and built its sessions on it, including one on the convergence of AI with other technologies and one on next steps for multilateral dialogue. AI and autonomy are also discussed in the Secretary-General's annual report on current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts.
Local copy
Partial (secondary source only). The official source could not be downloaded (The site's robots.txt does not allow automated downloads of this page); only the secondary source was saved. Last attempt 2026-10-17 14:10:07 UTC
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-12/2026-10-11/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:38 UTC
SHA-256 21064515a00a38cf824fbf7c611b263e587c3ce1e95d034f54411cde81b6802f
Verification
CNot confirmed on an official page; the record rests on secondary sources. Check it before citing. checked 2026-10-17 · search-confirmed
CAUTION: no official source confirms the title, date and status; the record rests on secondary sources. The report's own text cannot be stored: documents.un.org is closed to the archiver by robots.txt (attempts on 11, 16 and 17 Oct 2026), and the UN Digital Library returns a bot-check page. Stored copies: the UNODA page on AI in the military domain (disarmament.unoda.org, 11 Oct 2026, the record's secondary source), which confirms that the Secretary-General submitted the substantive report A/80/78 under a mandate in resolution 79/239, its focus on areas other than lethal autonomous weapons systems and its annex of views; and the agenda of the June 2026 informal exchanges (unodaweb-meetings.unoda.org, stored 17 Oct 2026, a UNODA host not yet recorded as official, so its quotes count as secondary), which names the report and describes its coverage of AI's convergence with other technologies. Neither gives the report's date. The dates (5 June 2025, reissued 4 February 2026), the page count, the number and list of submitting States and the Secretary-General's observations were read in version 1 from the documents.un.org PDF, which was never stored; they are left out of the summary and notes until it is.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 5 field(s) supported.
History
- 2026-10-17verification.level: A → C — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-17notes: Dated 5 June 2025 and reissued for technical reasons on 4 February 2026. States → Resolution 80/58 (UN-11) took up the report for the informal exchanges in Geneva — Rewritten from the stored files: the report's use in the June 2026 exchanges and the companion science-and-technology report named on the UNODA page. The reissue, the list of submitting States, the absence of a US submission, 80/58 'noting' the report, the REAIM 2026 citation and the annex languages rest on unstored sources and went out (open_questions).2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["national security & military", "human oversight", "accountability & liability" → ["national security & military", "catastrophic risk", "international cooperation — 'human oversight' and 'accountability & liability' dropped (they came from the Secretary-General's observations, which are not stored); 'catastrophic risk' kept for the convergence of AI with biology, chemistry and nuclear weapons.2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-17summary: First Secretary-General's report on AI in the military domain, requested by reso → Report of the Secretary-General submitted under a mandate in resolution 79/239 o — Cut to what the stored files support: the mandate under 79/239, the focus beyond lethal autonomous weapons systems and the annex of views (UNODA page), and the convergence of AI with other technologies (UNODA agenda). 'First', the 151 pages, the 31 States, the EU, the catalogue of normative proposals and the Secretary-General's quoted observations rest on the unstored report and went out (open_questions).2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
United Nations Secretary-General, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 79/239 (prepared with the Office for Disarmament Affairs). Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security: Report of the Secretary-General (A/80/78) [A/80/78]. 2025-06-05. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n25/107/66/pdf/n2510766.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level C). Local copy archive/UN-12/2026-10-11/secondary.html retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:38 UTC, SHA-256 21064515a00a38cf824fbf7c611b263e587c3ce1e95d034f54411cde81b6802f. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record UN-12.
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