Draft Resolution 1

Context: This was a resolution that was written for my high school's first Model UN conference (more context on paper 1). This was a pre-conference assignment and I ended up winning 'Best Draft Resolution'. So, was it good? You decide.

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Committee Name: General Assembly – 1 (DISEC)

Agenda: Preventing the Militarization of Artificial Intelligence for Malicious Use

Author: The Russian Federation

Sponsors: -

Signatories: -

 

The General Assembly – 1/DISEC Committee,

 

Noting with regret the inherent violations of important United Nations documents which are central to the spirit of the United Nations which include (but are not restricted to):

1)    The United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights,

2)    Various resolutions produced by (most importantly) the United Nations Security Council, and by smaller conglomerates such as the DISEC, ECOSOC and the UNHRC,

which has resulted in the recent manifestations of the malicious uses of artificial intelligence which are intricately woven into the fabric of artificial intelligence research and development and is being considered as a huge detriment to the numerous United Nations conglomerates including the ECOSOC, DISEC, and UNSC committees which accentuates the ever-looming minimal effectiveness of the CCW, GPAI, CGE and the Montreal Declaration in taming cases of the malicious usages of AI (to the grief of many lawmakers and diplomats) on the contrary increased the number of incidents relatable to the malicious usage of AI and has led to the questionable implementation of AI laws that give hackers free rein in various countries,

 

Alarmed by the disinterest (and in some cases, the active participation) of the international community in the allowance of criminal activities related to the malicious usages of AI (such as advanced hacking program and deepfake videos) such as the intentional allowance of legalized hacking group to flourish and thrive whilst being officially sponsored by the state, the legalized testing and advanced research grants provided by these governments for AI military-related researches, majoring on the development of LAWS, automatic capabilities, quantum computing, high-fidelity micro-chips processing and experimenting with novel technologies like AR and VR and the instigation of government-related misinformation campaigns in the form of convincing deepfake videos which are popularly used to sway opinion, which is in direct violation of resolutions A/RES/60/1 (paragraphs 138-140), A/RES/63/308, A/RES/69/323 and A/RES/75/277 alongside other cybersecurity resolutions such as 55/63, 56/121, 57/239, 58/199 and 64/211,

 

Deeply concerned about the lack of regulations and regulatory bodies surrounding this vital issue regarding the malicious usages of AI and their various implications which range from  the prevention of external bodies in imperatively investigating essential documents and accessing information about the possible usages of further malicious uses of AI, violating powers granted upon such countries to veto/destroy resolutions in place which are intended to place regulations on the development of AI for shady purposes by governments which are then used for malevolent purposes such as spying missions and tactical manoeuvres in spheres of influence (which are hypocritically disbanded as national interests) to the oppression of the systems implemented to lay a set of rules, checks and balances for the organization to uphold (which is to be supplemented by an extensive whistleblower system), and instead, suppresses the accountability of the authorities towards the international body in their dealings with artificial intelligence, and represses sanctions on developing nations who wish to extend their control on their various domains,

 

Further deploring the actions of certain countries such as quelching the freedoms of the press to conceal sensitive information pertaining to criminal activities involved in major schemes using artificial intelligence (such as governmental organizations partnering with private companies/employing hacking groups to infiltrate into citizens’ identifications, thus having supreme control over all citizens and dissenters whilst using secondary AI means like face-scanners to easily identify common dissenters and religious minorities) and shrouding their shady dealings and illicitly dealt-with triumphs using AI, which are a direct violation to the official guidelines set in stone by various governing bodies which include the respective country’s judicial branches, internationally-acclaimed and independent watch-dogs, UN-affiliated and officiated delegations, various UNODC, UNHRC, DISEC and UNSC resolutions alongside company policies by various artificial intelligence providers,

 

1.     Calls upon all related parties to this issue (namely, national and state governments, governmental organizations, governmental conglomerates, privatised companies, artificial intelligence providers, non-state actors, policing agents (like INTERPOL), watchdogs (independent and United Nations-affiliated), NGO’s and other affiliated entities) to increase transparency and accountability at all levels so as to be accountable to the people that they represent and to measure up to international non-corruptibility standards based on the following parameters:

a) The potential usages of AI should be spelled out directly at the commencement of AI-related projects which must pass through the following regulations in order to be legally accepted by the United Nations, namely:

 

i)               The project must first be presented any of the United Nations conglomerates (such as ECOSOC, DISEC, or even the UNSC);

 

ii)             The case shall be impartially presented in that particular conglomerate and must be put up for discussion, the main subject of which should be a written project report and synopsis of the proposed plan by the defending country;

 

iii)           The committee will put the idea to a vote and the sitting president of the committee will have a thorough review of the project plans;

 

iv)            The immediate establishment of a committee termed as the “Expert Panel On Potential Artificial Intelligence Advancement Plans” will be ensued comprising of representatives from premier technological colleges, governmental representatives for the digital sector in presiding countries and United Nations-nominated AI experts and researchers will review the plans established by the countries;

 

v)             If the idea proposed by the committee and researchers is unanimously approved, then the idea is sent for approval to the UNSC;

 

vi)            The UNSC can make amendments and recommendations and will vote on the final project plans;

 

vii)          If the project is voted unanimously, it is then approved by the Secretary-General and the country’s plans get approvals from the United Nations, alongside the fact that the project will receive assistance from the United Nations and will garner expert advice on how to make the innovation less militarised and more human-friendly;

This landmark approach of filtering AI plans is beneficial to the world as it automatically filters our any malicious usages of AI as it passes through a wide range of filters which includes security experts and diplomats and the illegal commencement of any such programs pertaining to AI which is explicitly related to malicious uses will incur sweeping sanctions on such countries in the form of:

i)               Economic sanctions, which covers a wider domain of sanctions which include barriers of trade, freezing of assets, travel bans, and restricting the usage of the financial trading system;

 

ii)             Diplomatic sanctions, which severs diplomatic ties with nations who illegally run operations without the consent of the United Nations and thus exposes them to banishment from the international community should they persist in their activities;

 

iii)           Sports sanctions, which means denying them access to sporting events and even barring them from hosting sporting events which will make them reconsider their policies;

 

 

b) Requests for the formation of a separate United Nations conglomerate which is named as the UNC+AIRDA (the United Nations Cybersecurity + Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Agency) and whose sole purpose is to:

i)          Fight against the militarization of artificial intelligence in all spheres of life;

ii)         Alerting countries about scandals and malicious uses of AI prevalent today;

iii)       Publishing reports on best security practices and resources that countries can use to defend themselves against should a major AI swarm of attacks occur;

iv)            Recommends actions to be taken against violators who illegally propagate their mal-practices and abuse AI for their own gains;

v)         Partners with companies and governments to broker unique solutions to certain subsets of problems relating to AI (such as data acquisition-inherent bias);

vi)        Setting up criterion for identifying the following thresholds:

1)    Determining the point of no-return, the stage where development of AI turns into an arms-race and ways to scale down such an arms race if in the case of one;

2)    Identify the duality-nature of AI and recognize the fine line between the beneficial usage of AI and the malicious usage of AI and measures to resolve a build-up of massive fraud in this sector at the time of such an occurrence;

vii)       Being prepared at all times on standby in order to alleviate/mitigate any repercussions a sudden cyber-war could inflict on the world;

 

2.     Calls upon all related parties and stakeholders in this issue to improve upon the following criterion:

 

a)     Calling upon all member states in the DISEC to improve in the area of disarming AI-based weaponry which is detrimental to humanity upon the following parameters:

 

i)               Establish the commissioning of a new committee in the United Nations termed as the “Artificial Intelligence Oriented Weapons Dissemination Committee” which comprises of white-hat hackers, technology experts from various prestigious universities and technical experts from major institutions around the world which is solely dedicated to locating any AI-contaminated weaponry systems and mitigating its effects on the war such that acts of genocide or war crimes would not be committed by these weapon systems;

 

ii)             Introduce tough legislations that sets international limits on the development of LAWS and strictly prohibits and sanctions any nations who violates any aspect of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights but does not restrict their advancement for research and scientific purposes, which will scale down the development of lethal weapon systems;

 

iii)           Introduce 4 diktats which will be central to disarming AI-weapons, namely:

 

1)    Increasing collaboration of policymakers and researchers in order to explore further possibilities of malicious usages of AI, especially arming AI, so that they can make detailed legislations and not leave loopholes that cyber-criminals can exploit;

 

2)    Increasing collaboration between researchers and engineers so that they can develop tools that turn AI on itself, exploiting its advantages and defending systems with advanced levels of cyber-security and also, can be involved in reaching out to pertinent third parties in case of an anomaly in defensive systems;

 

3)    Sharing best practices amongst member states of the DISEC so that they can identify, and pinpoint exactly which systems are lethal and autonomous so that they can individually crack down on these types of weapons in their constituent countries;

 

4)    Developers and lawmakers should extend the network of stakeholders in the issue to increase accountability, trust and faith in the uses of AI systems and to avert a major arms race in the field of militarizing AI;

 

b)    Increasing education around the fields of artificial intelligence is important to solving this issue, and the education of AI systems should be:

 

i)               Included in the curriculum of schools and also (preferably) schools clubs dedicated to the study of AI so that we can spread awareness, implementing the knowledge of how to code in 1/more programming languages and deal with AI software, and should be included as agendas in various MUN conferences in order to increase research and possible policies surrounding education in the field of artificial intelligence;

 

ii)             Included in government initiatives in the form of documentaries, presentations and governments drives to raise awareness about the issue of the malicious usage of AI, and should be encouraged to take part in activism against the spread of malicious AI uses;

 

iii)           Included in military training by cadet on how to use such weapons in the case of high military readiness when an impending war is at hand, alongside training them to be ready for cyberattacks on military infrastructure to preserve the army’s facilities whilst under attack;

 

iv)            Allowing for the implementation of an anonymous whistle-blowing system in order for civilians to practice anonymous reporting of misdeeds done in the field of malicious AI;

 

3.     Emphasizing the need for increasing global coordination in the form of strengthened regulations through the following means:

 

a)     In the area of strengthened regulations, the following conditions need to be adhered to in the following jurisdictions:

 

i)               We call for the updating of current existing legislation in order to strengthen international action by doing the following actions:

 

1)    Requesting for the specification of the term ‘AI Militarization’ and all activities that can be considered as the militarizing of AI;

 

2)    Provide concrete measures on how to ensure accountability on all fronts for the misuse of AI;

 

3)    Improve global cooperation in a divisive, polarized and partitioned world;

 

4)    Increase the number of independent watchdogs and commissions that will in a detailed manner, summarize the effectiveness of such policies and will greatly increase transparency;

 

4.     Resolves to remain actively involved in the international community in this matter of urgency.