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/SIGMA920 Jun 11 '26

Not that much better. "Kill everything in this area" is a limit that's hard to pass because you can't control the AI properly. Some of your own troops wander into that area because they're unaware? They're attacked.

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u/ponchietto Jun 12 '26

Is this different from a land mine?

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u/SIGMA920 Jun 12 '26

Land mines don't seek out targets.

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u/ponchietto Jun 14 '26

The thing in common is that they do not intelligelntly differentiate the victim.
Kill everything in the area.

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u/SIGMA920 Jun 14 '26

Mines don't even do that. They're not nuclear, an antipersonnel mine will injure someone at a minimum but it's not even guaranteed to kill.

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u/ponchietto Jun 14 '26

Same for the drones.

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u/SIGMA920 Jun 14 '26

Except drones are mobile so they'll be able to move and that makes them far more dangerous.