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Both Russia and Ukraine were already using A.I. in multiple drone models before the fully autonomous drones emerged. In those earlier models, A.I. is used only for what is known as the “last mile” — the final stage of the attack, after a remote human pilot has selected the target. Fully autonomous A.I. removes humans from the final target selection.

Not much different from what they were already doing.

Once we hear about such things, it's been happening for years. I suspect they have been testing AI for a decade and are now refining it. Like a beta.

Look at the construction on that captured drone; looks like it would cost five dollars at a garage sale. Virtually the only cost of these things would be the electronics, even the explosives are cheap.

So, every time that you've "proved" that you're human by selecting "what is a crosswalk?" and so on, it's just one more data point for an autonomous killer robot made of Styrofoam. It's not even cool like a T-800 Terminator robot.