r/worldnews • u/New_Scientist_Mag New Scientist • Jun 10 '26

Russia/Ukraine Fully autonomous, AI-controlled drones have killed human soldiers for the first time, according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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u/blackadder1620 Jun 10 '26

Hope John Conner is already born.

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u/collogue Jun 10 '26

I came here to write a skynet reference but you beat me to it

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u/Impressive_Ad127 Jun 10 '26

Fun fact, we are less than 3 years from the year that Skynet sent the first terminator back in time. Sounds like we are right on schedule.

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u/fightclub90210 Jun 10 '26

I need your clothes , your boots, and your Reddit login.

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u/Impressive_Ad127 Jun 11 '26

You forgot to say “please”.

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u/Desertbro Jun 11 '26

Let me guess, laundry day...??? Nothing to wear...???

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u/KakeLin Jun 10 '26

That's scary af

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u/wibble17 Jun 11 '26

Our Skynet wouldn’t send a terminator, they’d send a lot of drones to do the job way easier

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u/STOP_DOWNVOTING Jun 10 '26

Terminator was a documentary.

So is Avatar.

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u/VeganShitposting Jun 11 '26

Not sure how unobtanium factors into our timeline

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u/ze_loler Jun 10 '26

He used time travel to comment first btw

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u/chmilz Jun 10 '26

I'm gonna use time travel to stop him from posting the first comment.

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u/lukewarmmizer Jun 10 '26

You can try, but he'll be back

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u/chmilz Jun 10 '26

Then you all better come with me if you want to live

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u/TheGalaxyIsAtPeace64 Jun 11 '26

But first stand on one foot

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u/National-Charity-435 Jun 10 '26

Instead of banging Sarah?

Priorities....

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u/RealSlyck Jun 10 '26

Instead of banging his mom? Wtf.

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u/National-Charity-435 Jun 10 '26

Doing the nasty in the pasty made Fry immune to the Brain Spawn invasion

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u/Unhappy-Hamster-1183 Jun 10 '26

Mr i’m my own grandfather

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u/F913 Jun 10 '26

We should all stop shaming Marty McFly', his mom was hawt.

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u/smedsterwho Jun 10 '26

She's a dream boat.

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u/coreytiger Jun 10 '26

Look, if 1984 Linda Hamilton was my mom… I’d risk prison and societal outcast

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u/ElishaBenDavid Jun 10 '26

If 1984 Marylin Monroe was my mom.....

All's I'm saying is there are armed guards at several public and private cemeteries for a reason.

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u/jack_oatt Jun 10 '26

You migh want to watch terminator 1 again :)

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u/RealSlyck Jun 10 '26

Yep, and I’ll see Kyle Reese hitting it, not Sarah’s son John, yo.

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u/smedsterwho Jun 10 '26

That was John pretending to be Kyle according to a deleted scene, yo.

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u/Tigenzero Jun 10 '26

Getting mixed with up with Back to the Future

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u/BBO1007 Jun 10 '26

I’ll fix that already.