Follow RT on A UN report found that autonomous drones armed with explosive devices may have “hunted down” fleeing rebel fighters in Libya last year. If true, the report chronicles the world’s first true robot-on-human attack.
According to the report, anti-government Libyan National Army fighters, under military commander Khalifa Haftar, were retreating last March following an unsuccessful attack on Tripoli, when they ran into a swarm of terrifying aerial opponents.
They were
“lethal autonomous
Haftar’s fighters
“were neither trained nor motivated to defend against the effective use of this new technology and usually retreated in disarray,” the report continues. While in retreat,
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Earlier this year, Amnesty International announced its Ban
the Scan campaign in New York City. It warns that [f]acial recognition technology can amplify racially
discriminatory policing and that Black and minority
communities are at risk of being misidentified and falsely
arrested in some instances, facial recognition has been 95%
inaccurate.
1 The organization is asking New York
residents to contact the New York Police Department and the New
York City Council about banning facial recognition technology.
Amnesty is also on the steering committee of the Campaign to Stop
Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base earlier this month made military history: the first full-length test of Skyborg, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence system that hitched a ride on a drone and performed "basic aviation capabilities" with only limited human involvement.