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Louis Venus, an American engineer, has built artificial intelligence and facial recognition into a small commercial drone so it can chase people at speed. The developer said that it only takes a few hours to set up a drone capable of tracking a target on its own.
He configured the drone to use an object detection model to find people and fly towards them at full speed. The engineer also built a face recognition system into the drone, which works at a distance of up to 10 meters. This means that the armed version of the drone can be used to attack a specific person or group of people.
"It literally took a few hours to create this project, and I realized how scary it is," Venus wrote. "You can easily attach a small amount of explosives to them and let them fly."
Venus has described himself as an "open source absolutist", meaning he believes in the need to always share code and software through open source channels. He also has a desire to accelerate AI research, despite the shortcomings, because of the belief that the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages.
The engineer warned that a terrorist attack may be organized using such technologies in the near future. Although people need technical knowledge to develop such a system. Over time, writing software will become easier, thanks in part to advances in the field of artificial intelligence as an assistant in writing code.
Venus said his experiment showed that society urgently needs to create a drone protection system for civilian spaces where large crowds of people can gather. Source
