Nobel Laureates sign Rome Declaration on Nuclear Weapons and AI

Key Points:

• The "Rome Declaration for an Unarmed and Disarming Peace" was signed on July 16 at Rome's Capitoline Hill, concluding the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on AI and Nuclear War, which focused on addressing risks from AI, nuclear, and autonomous weapons.
• The Assembly, hosted by the Vatican, brought together over 200 experts inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s call to safeguard humanity amid technological advances, emphasizing the need for ethical responsibility in AI and nuclear policy.
• Cardinal Baldo Reina stressed that no machine or algorithm should control existential decisions about life, death, peace, or war, underscoring the importance of human control over such critical matters.
• Nobel laureates and experts highlighted the growing nuclear threat amid the disappearance of arms control treaties and called for immediate action to reduce the risk of nuclear war and annihilation.
• Peace Ambassador Sharon Stone emphasized that as machine capabilities grow, moral responsibility must increase correspondingly, affirming that human dignity cannot be reduced to an algorithm.