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Chile
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What does it want?
Position: wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN). Supports a legally binding treaty that prohibits some systems.
Wants a treaty, terms open (LBI-OPEN), since 2018-08-30, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
Supports negotiating a treaty but has not said what it should prohibit.
Chile, with Austria and Brazil, proposed in 2018 that the Geneva weapons convention start negotiating a legally binding instrument to keep meaningful human control over autonomous weapons. The proposal did not say what the instrument should ban.
The 2018 working paper, with Chile among its three authors, proposes a mandate to negotiate a legally binding instrument.
negotiate a legally-binding instrument to ensure meaningful human control over critical functions in lethal autonomous weapon systems
Proposal for a Mandate to Negotiate a Legally-binding Instrument that addresses the Legal, Humanitarian and Ethical Concerns posed by Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CCW/GGE.2/2018/WP.7), 2018-08-30 source
Wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN), since 2021-06-28, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
In 2021 Chile, with Brazil and Mexico, set out an outline for a legally binding instrument, preferably a new protocol to the Geneva weapons convention, made of prohibitions and regulations. In 2024 Chile joined a group submission to the UN Secretary-General calling for legally binding rules with prohibitions and regulations, and for treaty negotiations to start as soon as possible.
The 2021 paper by Brazil, Chile and Mexico says the normative framework should be a legally binding instrument.
the normative framework is the priority and should take the form of a legally binding instrument.
Elements for a Future Normative Framework Conducive to a Legally Binding Instrument to Address the Ethical, Humanitarian and Legal Concerns posed by Emerging Technologies in the Area of (Lethal) Autonomous Weapons (LAWS). Submitted by Brazil, Chile and Mexico, 2021-06-28 source
The same paper proposes an instrument made of prohibitions and regulations.
propose the following outline of a normative framework, conducive to an instrument establishing prohibitions and regulations
Elements for a Future Normative Framework Conducive to a Legally Binding Instrument to Address the Ethical, Humanitarian and Legal Concerns posed by Emerging Technologies in the Area of (Lethal) Autonomous Weapons (LAWS). Submitted by Brazil, Chile and Mexico, 2021-06-28 source
Chile co-signed a 2024 group submission to the Secretary-General calling for binding rules with regulations and prohibitions.
require the development of legally binding rules and principles, including regulations and prohibitions
Lethal autonomous weapons systems: report of the Secretary-General (A/79/88), 2024-05-24 source
Shift: wants a treaty, terms open → wants a treaty with bans 2021-06-28
First verified Chile-authored text proposing an instrument of prohibitions and regulations.
propose the following outline of a normative framework, conducive to an instrument establishing prohibitions and regulations
Elements for a Future Normative Framework Conducive to a Legally Binding Instrument to Address the Ethical, Humanitarian and Legal Concerns posed by Emerging Technologies in the Area of (Lethal) Autonomous Weapons (LAWS). Submitted by Brazil, Chile and Mexico, 2021-06-28 source
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How did it vote?
Yes on all three UN votes on autonomous weapons.
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What has it signed?
Being on a list is a fact. Not being on one is not opposition.
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When has it spoken?
Every time it went on the record, dated.
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What rules has it written at home?
Its own military policy.
Military policy not yet reviewed by this site, as of 2026-11-04.
The record
The documents on file.
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