Driverless vehicles as weapons

Category: Bad Actors

Vehicles have been used as weapons in numerous cases, ranging from kamakaze attaccks during World War 2 to the 9-11 attacks in 2001. "Autonomous vehicles would potentially allow expansion of vehicular terrorism by reducing the need for driver recruitment, enabling single perpetrators to perform multiple attacks, even coordinating large numbers of vehicles at once." (Caldwell, et.al., 2020) This would force schools to expand their protections beyond existing measures against school shootings and other violent acts.

Examples and Articles

AI-enabled future crime | Crime Science | Full Text
"Taxonomy of criminal applications for the purpose of assessing their relative threat levels." M. Caldwell, J. T. A. Andrews, T. Tanay, L. D. Griffin, Crime Science, Direct Link

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says
"The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true 'fire, forget and find' capability." Direct Link

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