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Posted on 03/15/2026 1:38:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In March 2020, on a Libyan battlefield, civilization may have crossed an ominous threshold. Turkish-made autonomous drones reportedly “hunted down and . . . engaged” retreating forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar with no human guidance.
According to a UN-commissioned report, those lethal autonomous weapons were “programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true ‘fire, forget and find’ capability.”
That was no theoretical scenario devised by military analysts or ethicists. Nor was it a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller about rogue killer robots. It was a real occurrence, one in which machines selected and engaged human targets independently.
The weapon in question was not some shoddy hobby drone with a duct-taped camera; it was the Kargu-2, a quadcopter loitering munition manufactured by the Turkish defense firm STM. Kargu-2 supports multiple warhead configurations, offering precision strikes via autonomous navigation and flight control. It also features an automatic target recognition system with day-and-night capabilities.
In the words of West Point researchers, it is “designed to be an anti-personnel weapon capable of selecting and engaging human targets based on machine-learning object classification.”
According to STM’s CEO, Murat İkinci, the Kargu-2 is equipped with facial recognition technology and can operate in swarms of up to twenty for coordinated attacks.
While it remains unclear whether the Libya engagement claimed any lives, drone warfare expert Zachary Kallenborn, writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, suggested that the UN report “heavily implies” that it did. If so, he said, it marks “a new chapter in autonomous weapons, one in which they are used to fight and kill human beings based on artificial intelligence.”
If the Libyan case offered a glimpse of autonomous warfare’s potential, Israel’s response following the October 7, 2023, mass slaughter by Hamas of...
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What’s the worse that could happen?
AI wipes out mankind and the Octopi take over.
Sauros means lizard in Greek. Just saying.
AI is headed towards Bitcoin path. Euphoria followed by dose of reality.
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They’ll be back.
Boston dynamics would like to join the chat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDLwTsRHtU
Jist strap some dak daka on the back and let them rip my.guy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3drPEV0fmZw
You should be more worried about a cargo plane dropping hundreds of these over an area with AI based targeting.
This kind of targeting that took a couple hours for a amateur to code up.
But put to work on real killbots that Sig and pretty much everyone else is making a realty.
https://www.twz.com/sig-sauer-shows-off-p365-pistol-armed-aerial-drone
My personal fav given that the Mark 19 is the finest infantry level guns up area suppression weapon.
Hey you see those guys over half a mile away yeah? Mess them and that hole football field sized area up. Roger Roger , weapon hot, shots out.
Ok now zip a drone over there with AI and tell it to mess up anyone not blinking the IR led IFF code signal.
In that future we’re going to need to make sure our IFF is on and transmitting.
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