Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security

Record UN-10 · A/RES/79/239

Issued by: United Nations General Assembly (on the report of the First Committee)
Jurisdiction: United Nations
Level · region: International · Global
Published / adopted: 2024-12-24
Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Official identifier: A/RES/79/239

Summary

First General Assembly resolution devoted to artificial intelligence in the military domain. It affirms that international law, including the UN Charter, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, applies throughout the life cycle of military AI capabilities and the systems they enable; encourages States to address the opportunities and challenges of military AI nationally, regionally and multilaterally and to bridge divides between countries; and requests the Secretary-General to collect the views of States, international organisations, the ICRC, civil society, science and industry, with a focus on areas other than lethal autonomous weapons systems, and to report to the eightieth session.

Safety topics

national security & militaryinternational cooperationhuman oversightaccountability & liability

Status notes

Adopted on 24 December 2024 at the 55th (resumed) plenary meeting, on the report of the First Committee (A/79/408, para. 114), under agenda item 98, General and complete disarmament; the document is dated 31 December 2024. The resolution does not cover AI in the civilian domain. It notes the need for complementarity with the discussions on lethal autonomous weapons systems in the Group of Governmental Experts under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and under resolution 78/241. The requested Secretary-General's report was issued as A/80/78 for the eightieth session.

Sources

Open the official source https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/426/98/pdf/n2442698.pdf

Secondary source: https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UN_General_Assembly_A_RES_79_239-EN.pdf

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 14:28:34 UTC

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-10/2026-10-17/secondary.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-17 14:28:37 UTC

SHA-256 fd9e337b3779af4105fd4070180983ae17afae9f02e2dd33a75937d11f2432ca

Verification

Another official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · alternative-official-url-fetched

The official text on documents.un.org cannot be stored: the site's robots.txt closes it to the archiver (attempts on 11, 16 and 17 Oct 2026). Stored copies: the UNODA page on AI in the military domain (disarmament.unoda.org, 11 Oct 2026, the record's secondary source until now), which confirms the title, the adoption on 24 December 2024 on the recommendation of the First Committee, that it was the Assembly's first resolution on the topic and the follow-up report A/80/78; and the text of the resolution itself, the UN document A/RES/79/239 (4 pages, Distr.: General 31 December 2024), as published by UNIDIR (unidir.org, stored 17 Oct 2026), which confirms the title, symbol, adoption on 24 December 2024 at the 55th (resumed) plenary meeting on the report of the First Committee, the operative paragraphs in the summary and the exclusion of civilian AI. unidir.org is not yet recorded as an official host, so its quotes count as secondary; the level rests on the UNODA page (alt-official). The UNIDIR copy is now the secondary_url, so that the record's local copy holds the resolution's text. The UN meeting coverage of 24 December 2024 (press.un.org, GA/12671) returned only a client-challenge page, also in the browser. The UN Digital Library voting record, which returns a bot-check page to the archiver, reports the recorded vote as 159 in favour, 2 against and 5 abstentions.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 6 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-17verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17notes: Adopted on 24 December 2024 on the recommendation of the First Committee (A/79/4 → Adopted on 24 December 2024 at the 55th (resumed) plenary meeting, on the report — Checked against the resolution text: added the 55th (resumed) plenary meeting and agenda item 98; 'explicitly excludes civilian AI' rendered as the text says it; the lethal autonomous weapons sentence now names what the text cites (the CCW Group of Governmental Experts and resolution 78/241) instead of 79/62, which the text does not mention; the vote figures ('not fetched') moved to verification.note.2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17secondary_url: https://disarmament.unoda.org/en/our-work/emerging-challenges/artificial-intelli → https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UN_General_Assembly_A_RES_79_239-E — The UNIDIR PDF is the UN document A/RES/79/239 itself (UN header, symbol, Distr.: General 31 December 2024, job number 24-24617, operative paragraphs 1-9, 55th (resumed) plenary meeting); neither official_url (documents.un.org, closed by robots.txt) nor the UNODA topic page gave the record a stored copy of its text.2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

United Nations General Assembly (on the report of the First Committee). Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security [A/RES/79/239]. 2024-12-24. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/426/98/pdf/n2442698.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level B). Local copy archive/UN-10/2026-10-17/secondary.pdf retrieved 2026-10-17 14:28:37 UTC, SHA-256 fd9e337b3779af4105fd4070180983ae17afae9f02e2dd33a75937d11f2432ca. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record UN-10.

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