New Russian Drones Use AI to Kill Without Human Help

Recent drone attacks in Ukraine show a scary new trend: machines picking their own targets and killing people without a human pressing the button.

A new and dangerous development has appeared on the battlefield in Ukraine. Russian forces are now using drones that can hunt and kill on their own. These drones use Artificial Intelligence—or AI—to make decisions without needing a human to guide them. Usually, someone sits in a room with a remote control to fly a drone. They look at a screen and decide what to hit. But these new, fully autonomous drones are different. They use special computer chips made by a company called Nvidia to 'see' the world. The AI inside the machine decides what is a target and attacks it without any help from a…