Luis Wenus, an entrepreneur and engineer, programmed a small, off-the-shelve drone with AI and facial recognition to chase people around just for fun and “as a game,” but soon came to the realization that his discovery could have much more nefarious purposes, especially if a payload is attached to these drones.
Live Science wrote in a report: ‘Collaborating with Robert Lukoszko, another engineer, he configured the drone to use an object-detection model to find people and fly toward them at full speed, he said. The engineers also built facial recognition into the drone, which works at a range of up to 33 feet (10 meters). This means a weaponized version of the drone could be used to attack a specific person or set of targets.’
Wenus said in a lengthy post on X (emphasis his):
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.
we built an AI-controlled homing/killer drone — full video pic.twitter.com/xJVlkswKaq
— Luis Wenus (@luiswenus) March 2, 2024
Live Science also noted, ‘the U.S. military is also working on ways to build and control swarms of small drones that can attack targets…
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