Welcome back to New World next week from the Sunny Climes of Western Japan.

I am James Corbett, a corporate report.com.

And I'm James Evan Pallato from Mediumoniki.com.

I give them the freedom of choice, which seems to be a foreign concept in these parts of the country.

We have got that story for you. Plus, $1,000 concerts. You knew I was going to cover that.

But first, killer drone hunted down a human target without being told to.

After United Nations commissioned to block killer robotdown back in 2018, a new report

from that international body now says the Terminator-like drones are now here.

Last year, an autonomous weaponized drone hunted down a human target last year.

They want you to know that it happened last year and attack them

without being specifically ordered to. This according to a report from the United Nations

Security Council's panel of experts on Libya published in March of 2021. It was then republished

in New Scientist magazine and The Star. And of course, everything we talk about will be included down in the show notes, all the links to all the stories.

The March 2020 attack was in Libya and perpetrated by a cargo two quadcopter drone produced by Turkish military tech company, STM, during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military

faction led by Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army. The star reported all

this, adding the cargo two fitted with an explosive charge and the drone can be directed at a target

in a kamikaze attack detonating on impact.

The drones were operating in a highly effective autonomous mode that required no human controller,

and the report notes the lethal autonomous weapon systems were programmed to attack targets

without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition.

That's a lot of syllables to say the drones attacked on their own.

In August of 2020, Human Rights Watch warned of the need for legislation against the killer

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