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
They tried it, saw that it worked, and took a step back.
These days, drones with neural network based machine vision (ability to recognize targets) phone home to an operator and request a permission to attack.
The interesting bit: it is within the capability of one well-informed and well-motivated engineer or coder to create such systems. It doesn’t require a megacorps.
Then again, nothing new: mine-laying was previously within the capability of one person too. Now the mines just fly, swim or drive, and may consider on their own.
Countermeasures - blinding the device, shooting it down with an interceptor which is a bit more agile but is allowed to be considerably more dumb (in air defense, you typically have a clear target), possibly also bricking it with an electromagnetic pulse (at short range, so less than optimal).
They tried it, saw that it worked, and took a step back.
These days, drones with neural network based machine vision (ability to recognize targets) phone home to an operator and request a permission to attack.
The interesting bit: it is within the capability of one well-informed and well-motivated engineer or coder to create such systems. It doesn’t require a megacorps.
Then again, nothing new: mine-laying was previously within the capability of one person too. Now the mines just fly, swim or drive, and may consider on their own.
Countermeasures - blinding the device, shooting it down with an interceptor which is a bit more agile but is allowed to be considerably more dumb (in air defense, you typically have a clear target), possibly also bricking it with an electromagnetic pulse (at short range, so less than optimal).
Why waste your time posting slop?
Thanks chatgpt