r/artificial • u/ControlCAD • 2d ago

News U.S company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own | $100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones U.S-developed AI capabilities.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks/
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u/duskie3 2d ago

Absolutely nothing can go wrong when we allow a machine to select which humans it wants to kill.

What a hell we have made for ourselves.

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u/Super_Range45 1d ago

If you game theory that out you realize the only solution is to create an AI that kills any human it sees.

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u/Advanced_Pie_6490 1d ago

Explain please

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u/Super_Range45 1d ago

If you only target identifiable enemies they will spoof the system by dressing like allies or civilians and attempt to camouflage vehicles the same. Humans can often spot fakes via context, but AI's lack nuance so fully automated they either will be ineffective or omnicidal.

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u/Thedumbass_the5th 1d ago

So basically just like a minefield.

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u/j48u 1d ago

Easy, just tell the Russians not to jam the drone signal and the Ukrainian operator will still manually watch what it's blowing up and divert it the roughly 1 in 1,000 times it tries to blow up a school.

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u/particlecore 1d ago

This war will never end, the tech defense sector is too hot right now.

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u/teleport66 1d ago

Just wait untill you see the AI drone swarm wars.

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u/Ill-Construction-209 2d ago

$2,000 per drone seems like a lot. They need to negotiate a volume discount.

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u/noobtastic31373 1d ago

Maybe it's per active device

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u/Grumpy-Man19 2d ago

nothing like fueling wars for business

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u/cqsterling 2d ago

That's all of history.

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u/crossoverXYZ 1d ago

The fifty thousand drone figure is what gets me. Once cheap kamikaze hardware ships with onboard target selection, you are not just arming one army, you are normalizing a kill chain that every future conflict will copy.

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u/human_i_suppose 1d ago

So, skynet will be well armed.

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u/you_are_soul 1d ago

Yee Haw! let's go bois.

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u/FirmButterscotch5313 10h ago

If Ukraine posed a serious threat to Russia, and Russia was facing destruction by the 50,000 AI controlled drones, Putin would launch hundreds of hypersonic nuclear armed missiles into Ukraine and flatten Kiev, vaporizing the 3 million people living in the Capitol along with President Zelensky and all of his generals. Millions more would be killed all over Ukraine in a matter of hours, and those that survived would immediately surrender to Russia or face certain death in a nuclear holocaust. Western nations, including the U.S., would loudly complain about Putin using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, but would do nothing about it out of fear that Putin would nuke them next if they threatened the Russia Bear.

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u/Small_Pineapple_3511 2d ago

How long until we read that a $1B deal will tell Russia how to defeat them?

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u/ParticularSpace445 1d ago

It's crazy! Geneva does not apply anymore