Campaign Against Killer Robots Depicts Bleak Future as Nations Meet Xconomy

This video is the stuff of nightmares. It depicts A.I.-directed drones loaded with small amounts of explosive, seeking out and killing targets autonomously. A slick tech executive makes his (for now) fictional pitch of this "improvement" on the large, Predator-style military drones that are familiar today. He shows a bomber flying over a city, dropping $25 million of the micro-drones, which descend like a swarm--"enough to kill half a city," he says. "Take out your entire enemy, virtually risk free. Just characterize him," the pitchman says.