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Nobel Laureates in Rome Urge International Treaty to Ban AI From Nuclear Weapons Control

July 16, 2026 at 18:08 EDT

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More than 30 Nobel laureates, alongside former heads of state, scientists and religious leaders, adopted a declaration in Rome on July 16 calling for an international treaty to keep artificial intelligence out of nuclear command systems and to preserve human control over the world's deadliest weapons.

July 16, 2026 · Rome Declaration

Keep AI Out of the Nuclear Trigger, Nobel Laureates Urge

More than 30 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, scientists and religious leaders adopted a declaration in Rome calling for an international treaty to bar artificial intelligence from nuclear command systems and preserve human control over the world's deadliest weapons.

~30

Nobel laureates among the signatories

200+

Participants over the 3-day assembly

Days, July 14–16, Castel Gandolfo to Rome

1945

Nuclear era now meeting the AI era

Four Principles the Declaration Sets Out

Policy and ethical guardrails — not technical benchmarks

Human control

Strengthen human oversight over all weapons systems

Slow the clock

Deliberately lengthen decision-making time

Two-person rule

Require two people for critical decisions

Treaty push

Cooperate to keep AI out of nuclear arsenals

The core warning

Embedding AI in nuclear command and control could raise the danger of accidental use — through malfunction, or through decision cycles compressed beyond meaningful human judgment.

AI in the loop

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Compressed decision time

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Higher risk of accidental use

Welcomed

Disarmament and peace organizations embraced the text as a timely warning against the militarization of AI and a starting point for building consensus.

The limit

Non-binding, it carries moral not legal weight. A real treaty needs the very nuclear-armed states now modernizing their arsenals to agree to constrain the technology.

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