Terminator Mode
Posted on Wed 17 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with autonomous weapons, ukraine, russia, drones, ai warfare, lethal autonomous weapons, terminator, skynet, james cameron, hal 9000, international humanitarian law, human in the loop, ai safety, bakhmut, electronic warfare, douglas adams
Ukrainian quadcopters flew to the front line near Bakhmut two years ago, activated something their creator called "Terminator mode," and killed two Russian soldiers without a human in the loop. The engineers named it after the franchise. The franchise had been warning about this for forty years.
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