{"id":6272,"date":"2021-06-02T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:02:51","slug":"military-autonomous-drone-was-used-in-combat-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/military-autonomous-drone-was-used-in-combat-un-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Autonomous Drone Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Nations report on a military conflict in Libya in March 2020 stated that lethal autonomous weapons system (LAWS) drones, known to fly to specific locations, select targets, and kill without the help of a remote-controlled human operator, made their war debut.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>It was deployed during a fight between the United Nations-recognised Government of National Accord and forces allied with Gen. Khalifa Haftar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report did not say whether the LAWS killed anyone during the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the U.N. stated: &#8220;The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true &#8216;fire, forget and find&#8217; capability.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/01\/1002196245\/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.N. report reveals the LAWS automated military drones were used in war recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-emerging-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}