Kill Decision
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Kill Decision is a 2012 techno thriller novel by Daniel Suarez about unmanned combat aerial vehicles that use computer vision and pheromone-based stigmergy to autonomously assassinate civilians and kill combatants.
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- stigmergy
- (c13) communication performed by parts of a system by modifying properties the local environment (e.g. pheromones in an ant colony)
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- 2026-08-27: Leo Laporte mentions on IM 885 a report that the Russia military has deployed a drone that killed Ukrainian civilians in the on-going Russo-Ukrainian war.[1][2]
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- ↑ Leo Laporte; Jeff Jarvis; Christina Warren. “IM 885: Get on the Butter Box”. twit.tv. Accessed 2026-09-08. Time: 1h55m15s/2h12m37s.
- ↑ Andrew E. Kramer. (2026-08-24). “A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2026-09-08. “A small Russian drone resembling a model airplane swooped down from the sky last month in the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine. As it tried to navigate toward a gas station, it crashed into a wall and exploded in a hail of shrapnel, killing Tetiana Bubynets, 19, a university student, and two others. ¶ Autonomous A.I. systems can be trained on thousands of images to recognize categories like “river,” “military truck” or “person.” Self-targeting drones use their cameras to hunt for these things with greater precision than a human pilot can provide. But opponents of such weapons argue that, without human intervention, drones may be more prone to mistakes or violations of the laws of war, such as by failing to distinguish innocent civilians from combatants. … ¶ The use of self-targeting A.I. in the gas station attack, on July 6, would be the first documented case in which civilian deaths were caused by a Russian drone outfitted with such a system, said Kateryna Bondar, a senior fellow at the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. She added that the Nvidia module “is the best proof” that Russia was experimenting with autonomous A.I. … ¶ Nvidia confirmed that the photos showed a Jetson Orin minicomputer. Such modules, which cost only a few hundred dollars, have been found on several types of Russian weapons. ”
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