Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security (A/RES/80/58)

Record UN-11 · A/RES/80/58

Issued by: United Nations General Assembly (on the report of the First Committee)
Jurisdiction: United Nations
Level · region: International · Global
Published / adopted: 2025-12-01
Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Official identifier: A/RES/80/58

Summary

General Assembly resolution on AI in the military domain that takes up the Secretary-General's report A/80/78. In operative paragraphs 9 and 10 it decides to convene informal exchanges in Geneva, as a three-day meeting in 2026, for States to share perspectives on the report's observations and conclusions, including opportunities and challenges, normative proposals and next steps. The exchanges are open to all Member and observer States, international and regional organizations, the ICRC, academia and civil society, including the scientific and technical community and industry; UNODA supports them and gives a written factual summary to the First Committee at its eighty-first session.

Safety topics

national security & militaryinternational cooperation

Open question

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Status notes

UNODA's note verbale of 2 April 2026 gives 5 December 2025 as the date of adoption; the General Assembly's 52nd plenary meeting of the eightieth session, at which it adopted more than 60 resolutions and decisions of its First Committee (report A/80/534), was held on 1 December 2025. UNODA scheduled the informal exchanges mandated by paragraphs 9 and 10 for 15-17 June 2026 at the United Nations Office at Geneva; the agenda opened with an introduction of the resolution and an overview of the Secretary-General's report A/80/78 and closed with a session on next steps for multilateral dialogue.

Sources

Open the official source https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n25/339/20/pdf/n2533920.pdf

Secondary source: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/80/58

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. The secondary source is a bot-check or empty page (The page has very little readable text (79 characters); it probably needs JavaScript). Last attempt 2026-10-17 14:10:02 UTC

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/UN-11/2026-10-11/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:35 UTC

SHA-256 778fe9fd120c7d75218425c0de7aee856b3f8a5922e91ae79e980bc4193cf5a3

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Verification

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. The resolution'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), the record's secondary source (the docs.un.org viewer) is a JavaScript page with no readable text, and the UN meeting coverage of the plenary (press.un.org, GA/12736) returned only a client-challenge page, also in the browser. Stored on 17 Oct 2026: UNODA's note verbale ODA-2026-00045 of 2 April 2026 and the agenda of the June 2026 informal exchanges (unodaweb-meetings.unoda.org, a UNODA host not yet recorded as official, so their quotes count as secondary), and the UN Audiovisual Library page of the 52nd plenary meeting (media.un.org). The note verbale confirms the symbol, the title and the text of operative paragraphs 9 and 10, and gives 5 December 2025 as the adoption date; the agenda confirms the meeting dates and the link to report A/80/78; the Audiovisual Library page dates the 52nd plenary meeting, at which the First Committee's texts were adopted, to 1 December 2025 but does not name 80/58. The adoption date of 1 December 2025, the First Committee references (A/80/534, para. 7; A/C.1/80/L.46), the preamble and the other operative paragraphs 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. Reported in sources that are not stored: a plenary vote of 167 in favour, 5 against (Burundi, DPRK, Israel, Russian Federation, United States) and 5 abstentions (Argentina, Belarus, Iran, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia), from GA/12736 as shown in search results and from un-project.org; a First Committee vote of 166-5-5 on 6 November 2025; and, from the Arms Control Association, that the United States, which voted for resolution 79/239, objected to this text as risking a centralised global governance regime.

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: Adopted at the 52nd plenary meeting on 1 December 2025 on the recommendation of → UNODA's note verbale of 2 April 2026 gives 5 December 2025 as the date of adopti — Rewritten from the stored files: the 5 versus 1 December 2025 dates as each source gives them, and the scheduled June 2026 exchanges and their agenda. The 52nd-plenary and First Committee references, the document date, the preamble's Security Council meetings, the vote figures and the United States' reported objection rest on unstored sources and went out (open_questions; the votes are in verification.note).2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17safety_topics: ["national security & military", "international cooperation", "human oversight", → ["national security & military", "international cooperation"] — 'human oversight' and 'accountability & liability' dropped: no stored file supports them for this resolution.2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17summary: Second General Assembly resolution on AI in the military domain, following resol → General Assembly resolution on AI in the military domain that takes up the Secre — Cut to what the stored files support: paragraphs 9 and 10 as quoted in UNODA's note verbale and the link to report A/80/78 from the agenda. The claims that it is the second such resolution, reaffirms the application of international law throughout the AI life cycle, encourages national, regional and global efforts and UN knowledge exchanges, resolves to bridge divides and excludes civilian AI rest on the unstored resolution text and went out (open_questions).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/80/58) [A/RES/80/58]. 2025-12-01. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n25/339/20/pdf/n2533920.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level C). Local copy archive/UN-11/2026-10-11/secondary.html retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:35 UTC, SHA-256 778fe9fd120c7d75218425c0de7aee856b3f8a5922e91ae79e980bc4193cf5a3. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record UN-11.

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