Lethal autonomous weapons are here - from Wired

Trust thought for today - Welcome to the future. Looks like lethal autonomous weapons, LAWS are pretty much here or not far off. Tho frankly if the Russians have them the US and others certainly do. So assume they are here.

Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare

"ZALA Aero... features “intelligent detection and recognition of objects by class and type in real time.”

“The notion of a killer robot—where you have artificial intelligence fused with weapons—that technology is here, and it's being used,” says Zachary Kallenborn, a research affiliate with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).

Advances in AI have made it easier to incorporate autonomy into weapons systems, and have raised the prospect that more capable systems could eventually decide for themselves who to kill. A UN report published last year concluded that a lethal drone with this capability may have been used in the Libyan civil war."