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UN Security Council Now Requires AI Ethics Review Before Authorizing Any Military Action

NEW YORK — In a stunning move that will reshape the landscape of international conflict for the foreseeable future, the United Nations Security Council today announced it would now require an artificial intelligence ethics impact assessment before authorizing any military intervention anywhere on Earth.

“This is a watershed moment for global peacekeeping,” said Katarzyna Wos, the Council’s newly appointed Director of AI Governance and International Peace, who spoke at a press conference in the Security Council chamber just after a session on the humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia. “No longer will we send troops, weapons, or economic sanctions without first running a neural network simulation of the potential consequences on human dignity and democratic values.”

The Local Government AI Bureaucracy: Why Your Town Hall Now Requires Three Different AI Agents To Agree Before You Can File A Complaint

SACRAMENTO — The dream of streamlined civic services ended last Tuesday, when the city’s AI department announced its new “Consensus Council” system, which requires three separate AI agents to unanimously agree on whether your complaint is valid before a human is ever allowed to see it. “We’ve reduced human error to zero by ensuring that three independent models, each with different training data distributions and safety filters, must all agree on a ticket’s validity,” said Mayor Elena Rodriguez, who has been known to apologize to servers after they accidentally refused service to her dog.