'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare

Is the war entering a new phase? 'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare Share'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare on social media Tetiana Bubynets collapsed on the asphalt after a Russian drone exploded at a gas station in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Despite the violent shockwave and blast of drone shrapnel produced by the attack on July 6, the 18-year-old accounting student had no visible wounds except for a nosebleed. One of her lecturers, Tetiana Melikhova of Zaporizhzhia National University, said Bubynets was an only child and that her mother "lost the meaning of life" after she died. At the funeral, she just lay on the coffin; she couldn't let her child go," Melikhova told Al Jazeera. The strike that killed Bubynets was the first recorded case of Russia's use of a fully autonomous attack drone powered by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a New York Times analysis .