AI drone may have 'hunted down' and killed soldiers in Libya without human input

AI drone may have'hunted down' and killed soldiers in Libya without human input By Charles Q. Choi - Live Science Contributor - June 3, 2021 KARGU a Rotary Wing Attack Drone Loitering Munition System A UN report suggests that at least one autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence (AI) may have killed people for the first time last year in Libya, without any humans consulted prior to the attack, according to a U.N. report. According to a March report from the U.N. Panel of Experts on Libya, lethal autonomous aircraft may have "hunted down and remotely engaged" soldiers and convoys fighting for Libyan general Khalifa Haftar. It's not clear who exactly deployed these killer robots, though remnants of one such machine found in Libya came from the Kargu-2 drone, which is made by Turkish military contractor STM. Landmines are essentially simple autonomous weapons -- you step on them and they blow up," Zachary Kallenborn, a research affiliate with the National Consortium for the ...