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Autonomous Kargu-2 Drone Allegedly Remotely Used to Hunt down Libyan Soldiers

Occurred
Mar 27, 2020
Published
Jun 2, 2021
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

In Libya, a Turkish-made Kargu-2 aerial drone powered by a computer vision model was allegedly used remotely by forces backed by the Tripoli-based government to track down and attack enemies as they were running from rocket attacks.

Developers

  • STM

Deployers

  • Tripoli-based government

Harmed parties

  • Libyan soldiers

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Autonomous drone used in lethal attack raises serious safety and ethical concerns.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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