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Slaughterbots
Stop Autonomous Weapons
Slaughterbots is a fictional short film, backed by Stuart Russell, depicting swarms of cheap autonomous drones that use facial recognition to assassinate targets. It was made to argue for banning autonomous weapons.
HN invokes it as the standard reference whenever drone swarms, autonomous weapons or military AI come up in the news.
20 Hacker News mentions · 2018–2026