We built an AI-steered homing/killer drone in just a few hours
I thought it would be fun to build a drone that chases you around as a game. It just uses an AI object detection model to find people in the frame, and then the drone is programmed to fly towards this at full speed as soon as it detects someone.
This literally took just a few hours to build, and made me realize how scary it is. You could easily strap a small amount of explosives on these and let 100's of them fly around. We check for bombs and guns but THERE ARE NO ANTI-DRONE SYSTEMS FOR BIG EVENTS & PUBLIC SPACES YET.
I was also able to add face recognition to it, and only make it attack someone it knew who was, it could easily identify the person from 10 meters distance.
My bet is that we will see some sort of terror attack using this type of tech within the next few years. You still need some technical knowledge to build this now, but it becomes easier and easier.
We need to build anti-drone systems for civilian spaces asap.
I'm usually an open-source absolutist, but I will not post for now, it's honestly super easy to code but no point enabling.
Disclaimer: this was built on a tiny drone for a game and would not hurt anyone, just wanted to spread awareness around this.
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https://mega.nz/file/wucXgCgD#9NFdPo5Rqw-24JBgHd6VwQwKkjpwAVlkQPG0HhuL_hU
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- Using something like this to kill the next Stalin, Hitler or Mao is different from killing innocent, random people in a terrorist attack.
- Like almost any tool, it can probably be used ethically as well as unethically.
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