The rise of AI-powered killer robot drones

Computerworld June 18, 2024
Mike Elgan

GPS jamming is creating demand for cheap drones that use AI to navigate, target and attack. It’s only a matter of time before this will be a worldwide danger.

Remember former Google CEO Eric Schmidt? He now makes flying AI robots that target and kill autonomously. (Really!)

His robots are in high demand for one simple reason: GPS jamming.

I’ll explain more about Schmidt’s robots below. But first, it’s time to catch up on the rising trend of GPS, cell phone and other signal jamming, which is triggering a global arms race between jamming and anti-jamming technologies.

The FCC crackdown of 2012

All jamming devices in the United States were banned 90 years ago — long before jamming devices even...

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