Director: Shannon Gao — Committee Type: General Assembly

This committee examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping both cultural preservation and modern warfare. Around the world, endangered languages, traditions, and historical artifacts face extinction—but AI now enables digital restoration, reconstruction, and archiving on an unprecedented scale. These benefits come with major concerns, including cultural bias, loss of authenticity, data ownership, digital privacy, and widening global inequality.

At the same time, nations are developing Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)—AI-driven weapons capable of selecting and engaging targets without human control. While they promise efficiency, they also raise grave issues: accountability gaps, ethical violations, escalation risks, and the lowering of barriers to warfare.

Delegates will debate how the international community should regulate AI to protect cultural heritage while preventing dangerous militarization and ensuring AI is used responsibly and equitably worldwide.

Across the globe, many languages, traditions, and historical records are at risk of fading away due to globalization, conflict, or the passage of time. AI offers new solutions to this challenge. For example, AI-driven restoration has helped recover lost pieces of art and rebuild historical architecture digitally, giving people access to this heritage. Meanwhile, there are critical issues, like biases, loss of authenticity, digital privacy, who owns the data, and how to reduce the inequality are also critical questions to ask.
As nations develop more new and advanced AI algorithms, there has been a trend of using AI in the military. Lethal Autonomous weapons systems or LAWS in short is basically describing those weapons that could select and engage targets without human control. They could reduce human calculations in warfare, but it leads to various issues too. There are accountability gaps like who is responsible if anything goes wrong. It lowers the threshold of warfare, escalates conflicts, increases inequality, and violates many humanitarian principles and those could be the topics of discussion for our delegates.

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