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Tiny flying drones, dubbed ‘slaughterbots’, with facial recognition software and weapons capable of mass murder could be the future of warfare.

A group of professors have warned the technology is already available to create flying mini killing machines.

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The Future of Life Institute (FLI), an artificial intelligence watchdog backed by the likes of physicist Stephen Hawking, has produced this chilling video demonstrating how these ‘slaughterbots’ could kill thousands of people.

The film is a vision of a dystopian future where tiny drones equipped with explosives, cameras, sensors and face scanners can programmed to carry out deathly instructions by either governments or terrorists.




The UN Convention on Conventional Weapons summit in Geneva screened the film and also was heard stark warnings about the growing danger of drone warfare.

The drones will have facial recognition and be weaponised (Picture: StratoEnergetics)

The Mirror reported Professor Stuart Russell, an artificial intelligence (AI) expert at the University of California, saying: ‘The window to act is closing fast.

‘Our primary message has been consistent: Because they do not require individual human supervision, autonomous weapons are potentially scalable weapons of mass destruction.

He added: ‘Essentially unlimited numbers can be launched by a small number of people.

The shocking video depicts a class of students being attacked by drones (Picture: StratoEnergetics)

‘This is an inescapable logical consequence of autonomy. As a result, we expect that autonomous weapons will reduce human security at the individual, local, national, and international levels.’

The ‘Slaughterbots’ film was shot around Edinburgh and shows a classroom full of students being murdered after a swarm of drones are launched.

The miniaturised drones featured are small enough to fit into the palm of a person’s hand, and are said to react 100 times faster than a human.

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