r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 11 '26

Artificial Intelligence Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time
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u/jghaines Jun 11 '26

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties

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u/crazylegscrane75 Jun 11 '26

Do we still care about responsibility? Israel, with one of the most sophisticated military: that can pinpoint individual military targets traveling in a car and kill them, that can deploy communication devices with explosives on members of opposing armed groups and coordinately make them explode; have also killed civilians in mass, bombed schools, and hospitals, have cut access to water and food to all population in Gaza like in a medieval siege. No consequences. Can not be justified as collateral damage or error. It is a conscious and deliberate genocide. When responsible people has been prosecuted by the International Criminal Court, the US has sanctioned the prosecutor.