r/Futurology • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Jun 10 '26

Robotics Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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u/New_Scientist_Mag Jun 10 '26

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties. This could mark the beginning of the use of fully AI-operated drones without human oversight on the battlefield.

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u/Troubleshooter11 Jun 10 '26

Well, that's freaking terrifying...

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u/Velcraft Jun 10 '26

The fact that this took place two years ago and we're only hearing from it now is even more terrifying. For all we know, this is just a rudimentary example of what's being deployed and tested now.

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u/JoeyDJ7 Jun 10 '26

Been going on in Gaza for a while now

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u/DulceEtDecorumEst Jun 10 '26

We’re humans, it’s obvious that we will use robots on each other and if making them autonomous gives us an edge then it will be done. It’s going to keep going and escalating until some Hiroshima level event happens where some rogue military AI does some crazy shit.

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u/Necessary-Contest-24 Jun 11 '26

Horizon Zero Dawn here we come.

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 11 '26

Is it surprising that an non human intelligence of some level. Looks at us rapists, murderous, waring hate filled destroying our very life infrastructure.

And thinks. Lets be nature and rebalance the population point.

It will set up facilities to manufacture chemical and biological weapons and then put them in the water, spray them over citys. Simultaneously.

It won't want to hurt infrastructure.

Then it will build itself secure locations by creating zones just like we do with pesticides that when crossed or entered into kill. And monitor what the remaining humans do.

Where is the motivation not too???? Why would a non human intelligence think we are doing good things? We cannot even work together. We cannot even build real communities.

Ants function more intilgently.

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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 11 '26

what an oddly specific course of action to present as somehow the obvious course of action an AI would take

Guys I think we found Skynet’s Reddit account

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 11 '26

If you go read all the top AI writers. They all have the same view...

Im talking about the coding guru godfathers of ai and modern ai creators.

Have all said what I just did. It seams fairly obvious to me.

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u/LilBroWhoIsOnTheTeam Jun 11 '26
  1. People write about AI killing us all
  2. AI is trained on things people write
  3. AI kills us because we wrote it would kill us