From The Sun, always calm and composed, May 26:
KILLER camouflage drones the size of insects could be used by Russia and China to commit untraceable murders, an ex-Google futurist warns.
Tracey Follows, who has also worked with Amazon and Meta, warned they could even carry deadly pathogens and be used to spy on the UK.
The warning echoes the plot of an episode of Black Mirror featuring robot bees
And it is a prediction which is a chilling echo of the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation".
The near future sci-fi show envisioned of world where robot bees designed to pollinate flowers could be hijacked to commit murder.
The Future of You author told The Sun: “In time, one expects a drone to have the situational awareness to carry out an attack autonomously without a human in the loop.
“The big question is what's the payload on these drones, what are you actually attaching to the drone?
“Increasingly, over the last four or five years, I've been reading about viruses and how you can potentially attach a pathogen to these sorts of weapons.
“So not only can you identify somebody personally, you can then attack them with a virus, for example.”
Terrifyingly, she warned it could open the door for rogue nations like Russia to assassinate targets on UK soil without leaving a trace.
Moscow was infamously accused of poisoning ex-Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury in 2018.
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Hi-ho, it's off to FlySwatters-R-Us we go.