{"id":123197,"date":"2021-05-30T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says"},"modified":"2021-05-30T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T19:23:07","slug":"a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says","title":{"rendered":"A rogue killer drone \u2018hunted down\u2019 a human target without being instructed to, UN report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rogue-killer-drone-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-being-instructed-to-un-report-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, joy. You can take the drone out of 2020, but you can\u2019t take the 2020 out of the drone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A \u201clethal\u201d weaponized drone \u201chunted down a human target\u201d without being told to for the first time, according to a UN report seen by the New Scientist.<\/p>\n<p>The March 2020 incident saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stm.com.tr\/en\/kargu-autonomous-tactical-multi-rotor-attack-uav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">KARGU-2 quadcopter<\/a> autonomously attack a human during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction, led by the Libyan National Army\u2019s Khalifa Haftar, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/killer-ai-drones-hunted-down-24203431\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Daily Star<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish-built KARGU-2, a deadly attack drone designed for asymmetric warfare and anti-terrorist operations, targeted one of Haftar\u2019s soldiers while he tried to retreat, according to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, joy. You can take the drone out of 2020, but you can\u2019t take the 2020 out of the drone. A \u201clethal\u201d weaponized drone \u201chunted down a human target\u201d without being told to for the first time, according to a UN report seen by the New Scientist. The March 2020 incident saw a KARGU-2 quadcopter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}