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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Irans top nuclear scientist, was killed on November 27 by a smart satellite-controlled machine gun that used AI, the countrys Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Ali Fadavi told local media, as the BBC reports.<\/p>\n
The scientist was allegedly killed by a weaponmounted to a pickup truck, which shot Fakhrizadeh inside a vehicle from a distance but spared his wife sitting right next to him.<\/p>\n
The weapon focused only on martyr Fakhrizadehs face in a way that his wife, despite being only 25cm [10 inches] away, was not shot, Gen Fadavi, Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, told a ceremony on Sunday, as quoted by the BBC.<\/p>\n
None of these claims have yet to be verified by outside sources and no proof has yet to be provided by Iranian officials.<\/p>\n
If Irans officials are to be believed, Israel could be behind the attack, an assassination targeting the brains behind Irans efforts to develop nuclear weapons, as Al Jazeera points out.<\/p>\n
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.<\/p>\n
Some doubt the assassination was carried out via robot, as experts told CNN. Technologies would have to be smuggled into the country, including a communications relay, which could easily be intercepted by Iranian forces.<\/p>\n
Fakhrizadeh has however been a target of Israeli for a long time, a senior US administration official told CNN.<\/p>\n
If confirmed, the assassination could set a troubling precedent.<\/p>\n
If such devices were autonomous, using face-recognition to pinpoint and kill people, we would be on a downhill roll that would entirely disrupt global security, Noel Sharkey, a member of the Campaign Against Killer Robots, told the BBC.<\/p>\n
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Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a "Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun" - Futurism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Machine Gun Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Irans top nuclear scientist, was killed on November 27 by a smart satellite-controlled machine gun that used AI, the countrys Revolutionary Guards commander Brig-Gen Ali Fadavi told local media, as the BBC reports. The scientist was allegedly killed by a weaponmounted to a pickup truck, which shot Fakhrizadeh inside a vehicle from a distance but spared his wife sitting right next to him. The weapon focused only on martyr Fakhrizadehs face in a way that his wife, despite being only 25cm [10 inches] away, was not shot, Gen Fadavi, Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, told a ceremony on Sunday, as quoted by the BBC. Continue reading