From Reason, June 1:
Should they be banned?
In 2017, the Boston-based Future of Life Institute released a chilling 7-minute arms control video entitled Slaughterbots. It featured swarms of autonomous killer drones using facial recognition technology to hunt down and attack specific human targets. Now, according to a new United Nations (U.N.) report on military activity in war-torn Libya, that fictional scenario may have taken a step towards reality.
Specifically, the report notes that retreating convoys and troops associated with Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar "were subsequently hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems such as the STM Kargu-2 and other loitering munitions." The report adds that "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." In other words, once they were launched, the drones were programmed to act without further human intervention to identify and attack specific targets....
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If interested see also: "Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready"
