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Governments must make faster decisions to manage the security risks posed by artificial intelligence, defense officials and experts warned at a major security conference in Beijing.
The discussions came as China and the United States, the world’s leading artificial intelligence powers, prepare for summit talks scheduled for later this month. The two countries remain divided over the use of artificial intelligence in military systems, including platforms linked to nuclear weapons.
More than 2,000 military officers, diplomats and academics from nearly 100 countries attended the three-day Beijing Xiangshan Forum, which concluded on Thursday. Speakers said artificial intelligence was accelerating military decision-making, while misinformation could spread at the same speed.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Muhammad Ali said technological advances had “compressed the strategic time frame.” He stressed that artificial intelligence could accelerate decisions further at a time when misinformation was undermining public trust.
Yurg Lauber, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the growing autonomy of weapons made human oversight more important. As weapons systems become more independent, he said, it was increasingly necessary to preserve human judgment and control over the use of force.
The forum also discussed competition between China and the United States for leadership in artificial intelligence and efforts to establish rules governing the technology’s development and use. Thailand’s Defense Minister Adul Buntumjaroen said the key issue was not which country would become stronger, but how the international order would be structured.
Although Beijing and Washington acknowledge the potential dangers of military artificial intelligence, they have so far failed to reach agreement on common security mechanisms. The forum also highlighted concerns among countries outside the major powers: without clear rules and meaningful human oversight, increasingly autonomous technologies could make conflicts faster, harder to control and more dangerous.
Artificial intelligence has become a growing focus of international security discussions because it can support intelligence analysis, logistics and battlefield decision-making while also creating risks linked to autonomous weapons, escalation and misinformation. International organizations have called for human responsibility to remain central to decisions involving the use of force.
