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Lethal autonomous weapons systems (A/RES/79/62)

Record UN-06 · A/RES/79/62

Issued by
UN General Assembly (on recommendation of the First Committee)
Jurisdiction
United Nations
Level · region
International · Global
Published / adopted
2024-12-02
Language
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Official identifier
A/RES/79/62

Summary

Follow-up to resolution 78/241. It decides to hold open informal consultations in New York in 2025 on the Secretary-General's report on lethal autonomous weapons systems, to complement the work of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts, whose mandate runs to 2026.

Safety topics

national security & militaryhuman oversightinternational cooperation

Open question

title is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; date_published is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; status is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; official_identifier is unsupported and the checker gave no evidence-backed fix; summary clai Issue #100

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Status notes

The informal consultations were held in New York in May 2025. Related: A/RES/79/239 on artificial intelligence in the military domain (24 Dec 2024), recorded as UN-10. The follow-up resolution on AI in the military domain, 80/58 of 1 Dec 2025, is recorded as UN-11. The UN Secretary-General's New Agenda for Peace (2023) called for a legally binding instrument on LAWS by 2026.

Sources

Open the official source https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/79/62

Local copy

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Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-06/2026-10-11/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:49 UTC
SHA-256 d57098a3b37f734de0f39d95b2e76136ce68125f862c35a3de34947dfc2ff28e

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Official source, rendered in a browser (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-06/2026-10-11/official-rendered.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 14:10:42 UTC
SHA-256 8d7410f7d0dc352ceea81f9e4232b408662fe2466d0a40586fcc99207348e5d6

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Official source, printed to PDF by a browser (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-06/2026-10-17/official-print.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-17 13:39:29 UTC
SHA-256 715df530141fb1e831a2f7f6e9d864ab1b77041373b191b64c8dd4b97e0b615c

Verification

C
Not 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. PARTIAL. No stored file shows this resolution's title, date or text. The official_url (docs.un.org) is a JavaScript document viewer whose stored copies hold only the language menu; the resolution's PDF on documents.un.org is closed to automated downloads by robots.txt; the UN Digital Library returns a bot-check page; and the press.un.org meeting coverage of the plenary of 2 December 2024 (GA/12660) and of December 2025 (GA/12736), requested in this run, returned a JavaScript 'Client Challenge' page also in a browser. Stored in this run: a UN News article of 14 May 2025 on the two-day informal UN meeting on lethal autonomous weapon systems in New York, and UNODA's page on these systems, which supports the New Agenda for Peace recommendation in the notes. Title, date, status, the summary and the vote rest on version 1 and need the resolution's text.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 2 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 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)

Related records

UNGA resolution 78/241 on LAWS United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

Political Declaration on Military AI Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI (US-led initiative) · Published (non-binding, current)

UNGA resolution 79/239 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

UNGA resolution 80/58 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

UN SG report A/80/78 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

UN General Assembly (on recommendation of the First Committee). Lethal autonomous weapons systems (A/RES/79/62) [A/RES/79/62]. 2024-12-02. https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/79/62. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level C). Local copy archive/UN-06/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:49 UTC, SHA-256 d57098a3b37f734de0f39d95b2e76136ce68125f862c35a3de34947dfc2ff28e. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record UN-06.

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