ITU

Committee Description

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.