Drone swarms are only the beginning. What happens when they’re truly autonomous and communicate with each other? By MICHAEL T. KLARE Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons. But at least they remain largely under human control. Imagine, for a moment, a world of war in which those aerial drones (or their ground and sea equivalents) controlled us, rather than vice-versa. Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might … Continue reading Imagine killer AI robots in Gaza, in the Donbas