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Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
I'm just waiting for some dumbass to take a cheap chinese drone, attach a blasting cap with a shape charge laced with sodium cyanide. Anybody nicked with fragments would die.
And it'd cost what, $80-$100 ?
It's the endgame of asymmetric warfare.
I would like to see a mini quad copter take the recoil of a 1 g "shaped charge" (aka bullet). EDIT: ok, i found a clip of (a fairly big) drone firing a gun and it looks... not stable: https://youtu.be/FI--wFfipvA still, pretty worrisome.
Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
True, it all sounds like scaremongering, but the question is: what's stopping people from actually doing this?
Crime and violence already exist. And if we look at history, it is clear that it has changed with the times. What logical sense is there in thinking they will not follow the changes in technology today?
The events described are but a possibility. Yet, I do feel we should not dismiss it, simply because we don't like it.
This is not serious minded analysis, but it's not fun either. It's just bad clickbait.
No system can stop every dedicated attacker to begin with. Technology gives people leverage in all their activities, including doing violence to one another. Writing an article in Nautilus that amounts to idle musing about a comic book villain's murderbot scheme and then trying to burnish it as Very Serious at the end with name dropping and the author's academic credentials is so lame.
I would like to see a mini quad copter take the recoil of a 1 g "shaped charge" (aka bullet). EDIT: ok, i found a clip of (a fairly big) drone firing a gun and it looks... not stable: https://youtu.be/FI--wFfipvA still, pretty worrisome.
Check out the EFP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator
EFPs were what turned out Humvees to swiss-cheese in Iraq before we switched over the MRAPs.
> In this scenario, the K/K ratio could be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only a single one-gram shaped charge per drone. So you "only" need 10 million drones and 10 million grams of plastic explosive? An attack of that magnitude probably requires the resources of a nation-state, so I doubt it will happen. Targeted assassinations seem more plausible.
Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
Agreed and the vaguely proposed solution for their hypothesized problem sounds far worse than the problem.
Not quite sure how the author went from "Technology is, in other words, enabling criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly at scale" to "One strategy could be a superintelligent machine—essentially, an extremely powerful algorithm—that’s specifically designed to govern fairly".
I would like to see a mini quad copter take the recoil of a 1 g "shaped charge" (aka bullet). EDIT: ok, i found a clip of (a fairly big) drone firing a gun and it looks... not stable: https://youtu.be/FI--wFfipvA still, pretty worrisome.
If you actually watch the original video the drones aren't intended to survive.
Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
(All the better sources for these stories are paywalled, so have fun reading them)