Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.

1. No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.

2. No domestic mass surveillance.

Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.

Fucking cowards using flying drones. Kill me with a full humanoid and then I'll be impressed.

We’ve been here before, albeit on a much smaller scale and overseas. Between 1967 and 1972, the CIA ran a program in South Vietnam called Phoenix that generated intelligence-scored capture-or-kill lists of suspected Viet Cong and eventually killed somewhere between twenty-six- and forty-thousand people, many of them innocent Vietnamese civilians mistakenly flagged by informants and unreliable data

Jesus

I recently read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez from 2012. All in all it was an OK read, but I couldn't help feeling that the book had been overtaken by reality.

FAA quietly issued a nationwide notice in January creating 3,000-foot no-fly zones around every DHS and ICE vehicle, so that citizens and journalists can’t film federal immigration operations from the air.

Now that's something I haven't heard before

Anyone remember that short film from 2017 Slaughterbots?

https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

As far as I can tell, it's been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all

To understand what’s coming unless Congress steps in to stop it now, you must first know about what’s already been built in Gaza that’s the template for the Trump regime. An Israeli intelligence whistleblower told the Israeli magazine +972 in April 2024 about an AI system called Lavender that ranked the entire population of Gaza by “probability of militant affiliation.”

ELITE pulls data from the IRS, the Social Security Administration, DMV records, Medicaid files, utility bills, license-plate readers, and commercial data brokers (which typically include social media posts and often even emails when they come from “free” email providers), then populates a map with dossiers and assigns a “confidence score” to each person’s current address. If you update your address to get medical care, for example, that updates your score. Or post something on social media.

I think it's important to note that one of the metadata points that increased your chances of being bombed in Gaza was if you slept somewhere different too often.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if "changing your address too frequently" makes you climb the kill list in the US program

Umm..didn't Obama do this to the first US American living abroad?

We've had this reality for a looong time

With Renee Good, the decision to kill her was made by a human being who was operating inside a system that had already decided her neighborhood, her opposition to ICE, and her observer status made her a legitimate target. What happens when that decision is made in twenty seconds by a machine down in Florida, and executed by a hovering armed drone as the FAA has cleared the civilian sky so nobody is watching?

Sounds like we need cheap open source defense drones that can defend our communities by knocking these murder drones out of the sky.

Does anyone have a link to a project to 3d print drones that can be used to disable other drones in the sky?

Their responsibilities include counterterrorism, unconventional warfare...

I read that as "we will fight terrorism with terrorism"

...and that's especially concerning because the current administration defines "writing articles like this one" as terrorism, because it's antifascist

Don't want to be that guy, but this is far from new news.

"Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

This is from 2017. You can find even older stuff.

https://www.cfr.org/articles/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

The abandoned this a few days ago because of a law suit that rightfully pointed out that because ICE refuses to make themselves easily identifiable, the rule is impossible to follow. A drone operator can't know where an Ice vehicle is before launching a drone.