A dystopian future in which swarms of killer drones hunt for human targets is drawing closer, but fully autonomous AI drones remain an elusive technology, at least on the battlefields of Ukraine. “The issue of correct identification of enemy targets by drones still remains,” says Viktoria Kovalchuk, a spokeswoman for Brave1, a Ukrainian government organization involved in the development of AI weapons and other military technology. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has fueled rapid advancement of drone technology that has enabled cheap, bomb-carrying…
