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UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya

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  • @kjaerulv @kjaerulv on x
    “The drone, which can be directed to detonate on impact, was operating in a “highly effective” autonomous mode that required no human controller” https://twitter.com/...
  • @olaasm @olaasm on x
    I was five when ‘Terminator’ came out and have thus lived my entire adult life without any inclination to see SkyNet realized. Yet here we are, ostensibly in a world where these assholes have access to them same information, with this... https://www.newscientist.com/ ... [h/t @aw…
  • @jamescdwyer James Dwyer on x
    a Kargu-2 attack quadcopter, which the agency called a “lethal autonomous weapon system,” Those words... do not belong together. Especially not in-a-row. https://gizmodo.com/...
  • @sasanianshah @sasanianshah on x
    What happened to Asimov's three laws? https://twitter.com/...
  • @jimpethokoukis James Pethokoukis on x
    Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever last year, according to a United Nations report.🤖 https://www.newscientist.com/ ...
  • @tenpercent Rick B on x
    A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers' say-so during a conflict in Libya last year- UN. If confirmed, it would likely be the first recorded death carried out by an autonomous killer robot. https://gizmodo.com/...
  • @ritajking Rita J. King on x
    While people argue over whether machines will ever be “smarter” than people, machines are showing us we aren't as smart as we think we are. We need to stop calling AI artificial intelligence and start thinking of it as applied imagination. We are responsible for what we create. h…