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Killer Drone "Hunted Down a Human Target" Without Being Told To

posted by martyb on Saturday June 05 2021, @10:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the kill-all-humans dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:

Killer Drone 'Hunted Down A Human Target' Without Being Told To:

After a United Nations commission to block killer robots was shut down in 2018, a new report from the international body now says the Terminator-like drones are now here.

[...] The March 2020 attack was in Libya and perpetrated by a Kargu-2 quadcopter drone produced by Turkish military tech company STM "during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction led by Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army," the Star reports, adding: "The Kargu-2 is fitted with an explosive charge and the drone can be directed at a target in a kamikaze attack, detonating on impact."

[...] "The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true 'fire, forget and find' capability" – suggesting the drones attacked on their own.

[...] In August of last year, Human Rights Watch warned of the need for legislation against "killer robots" while NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang has called for a global ban on them – something the US and Russia are against.

See also: New Scientist magazine and the Star.

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  • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:20AM (1 child)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:20AM (#1142197) Journal

    Funny to see the U.S. and Russia agree on something. Frightening to see they agree on allowing independent killer bots loose.

    We will become extinct due to our own stupidity. Russia and the U.S. are two sides of the same coin.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:51AM (#1142205)

    Quite probably the only way they will go to outright war, pick a third country, or planet, agree to only target each others robots. Fuck it if a few locals don't get out of the way. Of course stand back and blame each other for doing the wrong thing, but otherwise all kosher "bloodless" settlement of dispute. Very frightening indeed.