Fully autonomous drones may have 'hunted down' and attacked humans for the first time

Autonomous drones may have attacked humans for the first time ever, according to a United Nations report. Last year, rebels in Libya were bombarded by'unmanned combat aerial vehicles and lethal autonomous weapons systems,' the report alleges. The drones can be operated manually but in this encounter they were self-guided, using on-board cameras and machine learning to find and target enemies. No deaths were confirmed but the drones carry explosive charges and similar systems have caused'significant casualties' in other encounters. According to the March report from the United Nations Security Council's Panel of Experts on Libya, Kargu-2 quadcopters were deployed in the North African nation in March 2020.