State dossier
Uruguay
URY · URUGUAY · board row present
What does this state want?
Coded LBI-BAN: Supports a legally binding instrument that includes prohibitions.
LBI-BAN since 2022-08-09, EXPLICIT
Supports a legally binding instrument that includes prohibitions.
Uruguay co-authored Draft Protocol VI (CCW/GGE.1/2022/WP.8, 9 August 2022), a proposed binding CCW protocol that prohibits autonomous weapon systems whose autonomous functions are designed to attack outside meaningful human control and whose use does not comply with international humanitarian law, and regulates the rest - a two-tier prohibit-and-regulate instrument.
Uruguay co-authored a draft CCW protocol whose prohibition on autonomous weapons is conditional, and is paired with regulation of the rest.
It is prohibited to develop, produce, possess, acquire, deploy, transfer, or use under any circumstances autonomous weapons systems if:
Draft Protocol VI (CCW/GGE.1/2022/WP.8), 2022-08-09 source
The prohibition is conditional, and its first condition is that the system's autonomous functions are designed to attack outside meaningful human control.
its autonomous functions are designed to be used to conduct attacks outside meaningful human control
Draft Protocol VI (CCW/GGE.1/2022/WP.8), 2022-08-09 source
The draft protocol pairs the prohibition with a meaningful-human-control regulation across the life cycle.
Each High Contracting Party shall institute measures to ensure that meaningful human control is retained in the entire life cycle
Draft Protocol VI (CCW/GGE.1/2022/WP.8), 2022-08-09 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?
Membership is fact, not opposition.
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When is it on the record?
The engagement cadence, dated.
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What has it written down at home?
National doctrine.
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The record
The documents on file.
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