Morocco Joins 34 Countries in Endorsing ‘Pathways to Action’ Pact Towards Safe Governance of Military AI

Mohammedia – The third Summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (REAIM) concluded yesterday in A Coruña, endorsing a new outcome document that sets out practical steps for applying previously agreed principles on military AI, according to the summit’s final communiqué.

The two-day meeting, held February 4–5 at PALEXCO, adopted the “REAIM 2026 Pathways to Action” declaration, which focuses on implementation measures for the responsible development, deployment, and use of AI in the military domain across national and international levels.

The Pathways to Action document, endorsed by Morocco, outlines 28 recommendations covering legal compliance, accountability, technical safeguards, training, testing, and governance. It reaffirms that states and individuals remain responsible for decisions involving AI-enabled military systems and emphasizes that AI decision-support tools should assist, not replace, human judgment.

The text calls for maintaining audit trails, conducting legal reviews of AI-enabled weapons and systems, strengthening data protection, and integrating testing, evaluation, validation, and verification requirements into procurement and doctrine.

At the national level, the declaration urges governments to conduct risk assessments before deployment, ensure personnel training across development and operational chains, and consider designating national focal points to coordinate responsible military AI policies.

At the international level, it encourages voluntary confidence-building measures, information sharing on governance frameworks, regional cooperation, and capacity-building initiatives, including for developing countries.

The declaration also calls for continued engagement with industry, academia, and civil society, including collaboration on research related to AI reliability, security, and human-machine interaction. It invites future REAIM hosts to expand links with industry to translate principles into practical guidance.

Alongside Morocco, a of the close of the summit, the Pathways to Action declaration was endorsed by Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, according to organizers. The declaration remains open for additional endorsements.

REAIM 2026 followed earlier summits held in The Hague in February 2023 and Seoul in September 2024. Organizers said the third summit was intended to move beyond awareness-raising toward operationalizing commitments contained in earlier documents, including the 2024 Blueprint for Action.

The summit took place alongside ongoing discussions at the United Nations, where the General Assembly has established an agenda item on AI in the military domain and requested reports and informal meetings on the issue.

REAIM organizers added that the summit process is intended to run in parallel with UN discussions, providing a multistakeholder forum that includes governments, industry, academia, and civil society.