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Was a flying killer robot used in Libya?
Quite possibly
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Last year in Libya, a Turkish-made autonomous weapon
—the STM Kargu-2 drone—may have “hunted down
and remotely engaged” retreating soldiers
loyal to the Libyan General Khalifa Haftar,
according to a recent report by the UN Panel of Experts on Libya.
Over the course of the year,
the UN-recognized Government of National Accord
pushed the general’s forces back from the capital Tripoli,
signaling that it had gained the upper hand
in the Libyan conflict,
but the Kargu-2 signifies something perhaps
even more globally significant:
a new chapter in autonomous weapons,
one in which they are used to fight and kill human beings
based on artificial intelligence.
The Kargu is a “loitering” drone that
can use machine learning-based object classification
to select and engage targets,
with swarming capabilities in development
to allow 20 drones to work together.
The UN report calls the Kargu-2 a lethal autonomous weapon.
It’s maker, STM, touts the weapon’s “anti-personnel” capabilities
in a grim video showing a Kargu model
in a steep dive toward a target in the middle of a group of manikins.
(If anyone was killed in an autonomous attack,
it would likely represent an historic first known case
of artificial intelligence-based autonomous weapons
being used to kill.
The UN report heavily implies they were,
noting that lethal autonomous weapons systems
contributed to significant casualties of the
manned Pantsir S-1 surface-to-air missile system,
but is not explicit on the matter.)