The Aporia
4 articles about 4 events for “Drones In Modern Warfare” from The Intercept.
“Royal Air Force Fairford air base with “multiple drones” that could have turned into a military and public relations nightmare.”
“And we’ve seen that kind of over and over again with drones, with ALPRs [automated license plate readers], increasingly with things like facial recognition tools as well, where these things are being piloted in small towns where they maybe have a police force…”
“But despite the high-profile salvos between the artificial intelligence giant and the Pentagon, ostensibly over the ethics of 21st-century warfare and corporate power, their actual falling out hinged on a government contract that has remained hidden away.”
“In an approach that foreshadows the future of human warfare, Ukraine has achieved a big reduction in the number of soldiers it must deploy on its battlefields, replacing them with drones.”