6/9/2023 0 Comments Intime ministries![]() My call to all of you today is simple: lets together lead the way. Meanwhile we have the unique opportunity to expand and fortify the international legal order, which is as we all acknowledge under severe pressure. We can make AI in the military domain as ethical, responsible and purposeful as we would want it to be. We can prevent unwanted escalation and ensure that humans are held accountable. We can give the great ideas proposed at this REAIM Summit wings. Yet while we are the laypeople… we are also you could say the dealmakers. And that, if we are really honest with ourselves, of the 2,000 people at this conference, to put it mildly: we might not know the most of it. That we find it hard to visualise what the consequences could be. I actually think many of us are simply insufficiently familiar with the topic. ![]() I have to admit that I myself and the colleagues I spoke to prior to this conference experienced a rather uncomfortable feeling. We are in time to prevent AI from taking us to a place we simply don’t want to be. We are in time to mitigate risks and to prevent AI from spiralling out of control. Yet similar to that decisive moment when we decided there is no future for blinding weapons in our world, we are now also in time to shape our future, before presented with a done deal. This means our efforts have to be very different from traditional arms control. Indeed, it has the potential to make our world better and safer. It’s no more than a code that by nature is neither good nor evil. While the word and name ‘blinding laser’ describes the catastrophic impact, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is actually something very different. Yet this time, and we all acknowledge that, the situation is much more complex. As we speak, armies are investing heavily in AI and again we stand on the brink of full-scale deployment. AI is the frontline of arms control and will determine the future of warfare. Today we stand at a similar moment in time. In the words of the time, the lasers would be ‘inhumane’, ‘abhorrent to the conscience of humanity’, and ‘unacceptable in the modern world’. And while these weapons never saw the light of day, we can imagine their disastrous effects they would have had. And you could argue that we were just in time. ![]() Before they were deployed.īlinding lasers stood on the brink of full-scale production and deployment. Together, we agreed to stop these weapons, before they were actually produced. Ministry and religious works edit Known for his relatability, charisma and visits to evangelical churches dressed as a Levite, Levitt grew his organizations outreach to a national scale. It was in 1995 that the international community adopted the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons. Zola Levitt (Decem April 19, 2006) was a Jewish believer in Christianity who founded Zola Levitt Ministries, in Dallas, Texas, in 1979. Speech by Minister Hoekstra at the REAIM Summit Ministerial Round Table on Thursday 16 February 2023.
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