Fears over mass atrocities caused by killer robots may be closer to coming true than we'd like to think. Last year, militarized drones may have autonomously attacked humans in Libya, as was first reported by New Scientist. If this incident, written up in a U.N. report last year, turns out to be true, it would mark the first-ever reported autonomous attack led by a drone. The full details of the attack have not been fully detailed, so it's hard to know whether or not there were any casualties.
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