Ukraine’s AI-Powered ‘Terminator’ Drones Made First Killings Without Human Control
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The armies around the world are already entrusting software with a part of tracking and targeting, but they maintain an inviolable rule, that of leaving a human being the final decision to open fire. This lock would have jumped on the Ukrainian front. The autonomous drone killers would have sought and struck their prey there, a course that the defenders of the law of war saw with concern. Ten quadricopters dropped in "Terminator mode" near Bakhm…
Ukraine’s AI-Powered ‘Terminator’ Drones Made First Killings Without Human Control
Fully autonomous drones operating without human oversight killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test in Ukraine about two years ago, according to Ukrainian drone developer Alexander Kokhanovskyy. Kokhanovskyy, CEO of the Ukrainian drone maker Aero Center said 10 AI-controlled quadcopter drones were used in a one-time test conducted near the cities of Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar during a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The drones were programmed t…
“We tested it.” “Tested how?” “You launch it, and you know everything in that area will die.” This is what Alexander Kokhanovskyy said a few days ago to journalists gathered at the Ukrainian embassy in London. What the autonomous drone manufacturer was describing happened two years ago, near Bakhmut, during a counteroffensive: 10 quadcopters programmed to fly toward the front line, hover over it for about ten minutes, and activate what they inte…
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