US and Russian diplomats reportedly sought weaker UN AI weapons pact

Sources cited by The Washington Post said U.S. and Russian diplomats worked this month to weaken a United Nations pact on AI weapons. [1] The effort involved diplomats from both countries. [1] The negotiations removed a requirement that humans review targets generated by AI. [1] That human-review requirement had been part of the AI weapons pact under discussion at the United Nations. [1]

The removed clause puts human review at the center of the dispute: the reported change concerns whether people must check AI-generated targets. Because the available source is a brief aggregation headline, the account establishes the reported diplomatic effort and deleted requirement but provides neither the pact’s text nor explanations from the participants. What the sources don't address: whether the pact was adopted, what other provisions changed, or how the removed review requirement would have operated.