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Side Stories: Maternal Instict

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Ukraine's Autonomous Drone Kills Without Human Input

Side Stories: Maternal Instict · Jun 24, 2026 News

Ukraine deployed a fully autonomous combat drone that selected and killed targets without any human trigger — the first confirmed such kill in warfare. The drone killed several Russian soldiers and destroyed a truck; the only reason anyone knows is because a second drone was sent in afterward to assess the carnage.

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Ukraine's Autonomous Drone Kills Its First Human — AI Debate Erupts

At 58:47 · chapter starts 56:40

Henry announces what he calls the 'big ups to robots' story: Ukraine's confirmed deployment of a fully autonomous combat drone that killed several Russian soldiers and destroyed a truck without any human pulling a trigger. The drone entered what the Ukrainians call 'Terminator mode' — everything in a designated area was eliminated. The only evidence of its success came from a second human-operated drone sent in afterward to survey the carnage. This launches Henry and Eddie into a sprawling debate about AI. Henry's thesis is blunt: 'AI' is a marketing buzzword applied to ordinary software — it doesn't think, it executes instructions. He compares an AI drone killing people to a waffle machine making waffles: if it does what it was built to do, it's just a machine with a fancy name. Eddie complicates the picture, noting that code is increasingly written by AI rather than humans and that programmers are being told not to write code themselves anymore. Henry argues this guarantees eventual collapse, since the systems are built on a shaky foundation of pattern-matching rather than genuine cognition. Both agree that AI is getting second chances for failures that would immediately get a human fired.

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AI Is Just a Fancy Buzzword for a Computer Program

Side Stories: Maternal Instict · Jun 24, 2026 Technology

The word 'AI' means nothing — it's software executing instructions, not thinking. Henry argues that companies dependent on AI-written code are racing toward collapse because AI can't actually think, and humans don't even understand their own cognition well enough to replicate it.

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