By Selwyn Duke
The 1984 film The Terminator frightened audiences with a nightmare scenario: being methodically hunted by a powerful, artificially intelligent, definitionally psychopathic robot that never rests and won’t stop until you’re dead. But truth isn’t just stranger than fiction, but also sometimes scarier. And perhaps proving this is that Chinese scientists are developing small autonomous drones that can operate as a swarm, avoiding obstacles and performing various life-saving functions — and, warn some, also a terrifying life-taking function:
Hunting humans, using facial-recognition technology to identify their hapless targets.
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Maybe this is the wave of the future but in the US couldn't we just shoot those drones down?
Posted by: tj | May 10, 2022 at 06:41 PM