A Ukrainian military leader has claimed that the country has drones capable of finding targets without direct human control, raising the prospect of autonomous killing machines being used in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war
Honchar is co-founder of Aerorozvidka , a team of around a thousand volunteer drone enthusiasts and technologists set up in 2014 to develop and use drones and other technology.
All of these have been under the command of human operators, but Ukrainian developers have previously described intelligent vision systems allowing drones to spot camouflaged military vehicles, which could easily be adapted for attacks without human assistance. Campaigners want new international laws to prevent such autonomous weapons being developed or deployed. On 21 October,Autonomous killer drones set to be used by Turkey in Syria
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