By Selwyn Duke

The 1984 film The Terminator frightened audiences with a nightmare scenario: being methodically hunted by a powerful, artificially intelligent, definitionally psychopathic robot that never rests and won’t stop until you’re dead. But truth isn’t just stranger than fiction, but also sometimes scarier. And perhaps proving this is that Chinese scientists are developing small autonomous drones that can operate as a swarm, avoiding obstacles and performing various life-saving functions — and, warn some, also a terrifying life-taking function:

Hunting humans, using facial-recognition technology to identify their hapless targets.

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