{"id":235170,"date":"2021-05-31T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235170"},"modified":"2021-06-01T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:27:45","slug":"killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-told-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235170","title":{"rendered":"Killer drone \u2018hunted down a human target\u2019 without being told to"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paula Froelich \u2013 New York Post May 29, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Arnold Schwarzenegger could\u2019ve seen this one coming.<\/p>\n

After a United Nations commission to block killer robots<\/a> was shut down in 2018, a new report from the international body now says the Terminator-like drones are now here.<\/p>\n

Last year \u201can autonomous weaponized drone\u00a0hunted down a human target last year\u201d and attacked them without being specifically ordered to, according to a report from the UN Security Council\u2019s Panel of Experts on Libya, published in March 2021 that was published in the New Scientist<\/a> magazine and the Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The March 2020 attack was in Libya and perpetrated by a Kargu-2 quadcopter drone (pictured above) produced by Turkish military tech company STM \u201cduring a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction led by Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army,\u201d the Star reports, adding: \u201cThe Kargu-2 is fitted with an explosive charge and the drone can be directed at a target in a kamikaze attack, detonating on impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drones were operating in a \u201chighly effective\u201d autonomous mode that required no human controller and the report notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true \u2018fire, forget and find\u2019 capability\u201d \u2013\u00a0suggesting the drones attacked on their own.<\/p>\n

Zak Kallenborn, at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism in Maryland, said this could be the first time that drones have autonomously attacked humans and raised the alarm.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow brittle is the object recognition system?\u201d Kallenborn asked in the report. \u201c\u2026 how often does it misidentify targets?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Watling at UK defense think tank Royal United Services Institute, told New Scientist: \u201cThis does not show that autonomous weapons would be impossible to regulate,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it does show that the discussion continues to be urgent and important. The technology isn\u2019t going to wait for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August of last year, Human Rights Watch warned<\/a> of the need for legislation against \u201ckiller robots\u201d while NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang has called for a global ban<\/a> on them \u2013 something the US and Russia<\/a> are against.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The killer robots are coming and they can be programmed to work without any human intermediaries <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":235172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235174,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235170\/revisions\/235174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}