Investigators attribute three civilian deaths to an AI-piloted drone

Claim

Investigators said an AI-piloted Russian drone running on a cheap edge computer killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia, likely a first, while an uncrewed vessel fired two missiles at a naval exercise and a pilotless lifebuoy in Hangzhou flies to a drowning swimmer and cuts its rotors so the person can cling on.

Reporting date: 2026-08-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 25, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)