This is our future https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM
I’m not really sure how we counter this type of threat.
I’m not really sure how we counter this type of threat.
The idea is that instead of packing a truck with explosives (which create a large but very localised detonation) you just deploy a swarm of these and let them take out whatever group of people you want to target.
Unlike in Black Mirror's Metalhead this isn't a scenario that requires long-lived machines. You just need them to be readily available at scale and to use facial recognition (or whatever -- the US already targets drone strikes based on cell phone signals I hear) to determine their targets.
Or hey, imagine a white supremacist group (not like the US has any of those) using them to just kill people of color. Terrorism doesn't need anything approximating a 100% success rate to achieve its goal.
Then EM pulse weapons, lasers etc.
That's addressed in the film.
> EM pulse weapons
That's not actually a thing.
> lasers
Aside from being impractical, this is bringing a knife to a carpet bombing. The video is about the potential of autonomous drones being used against civilian targets. Unless you put all civilians in bunkers guarded with lazors, they are irrelevant (plus of course you still have created a nightmare scenario where humans need to live in bunkers to avoid random electronic micro-terrorists).
I believe this is also the biggest intent of Black Mirror (where I believe the video is from).
For example Facebook and Google have so much data about you that a drone can track you down by using this data. Geo data, face data, habits, family and friends, you name it.
Let's hope the video will never happen.
Black Mirror does have a very similar episode though: Hated in the Nation (S03E06).