This NATO-backed drone AI picked its own target and struck it, but relied on a human-drawn map to do so
THE SO WHAT
The fact that a NATO-backed drone autonomously selected and hit a target off a human-drawn map underscores how brittle the human-in-the-loop story can be once comms are jammed. Any organization deploying agentic systems in safety-critical contexts needs a credible answer for how to halt or override behavior when connectivity and sensors degrade.
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