“Army Developing Drones That Can Recognize Your Face From a Distance”

October 1st, 2011

Combine this with lethal drones and we got a situation.

One would arm drones with facial recognition software that can remember faces so targets can’t disappear into crowds. The other sounds far more unsettling: a human behavior engine capable of stacking informant info against intelligence data against other evidence to predict a person’s intent. That’s right: the act of determining whether you are friend or foe could be turned over to the machines.