‘Attacks will be fully autonomous’: Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare

Tetiana Bubynets collapsed on the asphalt after a Russian drone exploded at a gas station in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.Despite the violent shockwave and blast of drone shrapnel produced by the attack on July 6, the 18-year-old accounting student had no visible wounds except for a nosebleed.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US envoys meet Putin: What’s behind latest diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine war?list 2 of 3US envoys hold ‘substantive’ talks with Zelenskyy in first visit to Kyivlist 3 of 3Witkoff says peace talks have been ‘very meaningful’ in Ukraineend of listShe was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead shortly after, alongside two other civilians, aged 41 and 48.One of her lecturers, Tetiana Melikhova of Zaporizhzhia National University, said Bubynets was an only child and that her mother “lost the meaning of life” after she died.“She couldn’t speak. At the funeral, she just lay on the coffin; she couldn’t let her child go,” Melikhova told Al Jazeera.The strike that killed Bubynets was the first recorded case of Russia’s use of a fully autonomous attack drone powered by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a New York Times analysis.While dro...