It was no ordinary drone either, he discovered. Assisted by artificial intelligence, this unmanned aerial vehicle can find and attack targets on its own.

Unlike other models, it didn’t send or receive any signals, so could not be jammed.

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    His company DevDroid makes remotely controlled machine guns, that use AI to automatically detect people and track them. Because of concerns over friendly fire, he says they don’t have an automatic shooting option.

    “We can enable it, but we need to get more experience and more feedback from the ground forces in order to understand when it is safe to use this feature.”

    That’s some real Dr. Strangelove logic in the wild. Can’t let robots kill people until it’s safe.