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Fully autonomous drones have killed with no human in the loop

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A Ukrainian official confirmed that fully autonomous drones have killed soldiers with no human in the loop, while OpenAI exposed a China-linked influence operation seeding narratives against US data centers.

Reporting date: 2026-06-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Fully autonomous drones have killed with no human in the loop
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-12-terminator-mode-drones-kill-without-a-human
Claim: A Ukrainian official confirmed that fully autonomous drones have killed soldiers with no human in the loop, while OpenAI exposed a China-linked influence operation seeding narratives against US data centers.
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- Welcome to June 12, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-12-2026
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