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Entrepreneur and engineer Louis Venus collaborated with another engineer, Robert Lukoshko. First, they set up the drone to follow people, adding a facial recognition feature that works from up to 10 meters away. They later realized that it could easily be modified to include an explosive charge. This means that the armed version of the drone can be used to attack a specific person or group of targets.

The purpose of the duo’s post on social network X is not to create something new that no one has seen before, How easy, fast and cheap.

It literally only took a few hours and I realized how scary it was. You can easily attach a small amount of explosives to them and launch hundreds of drones that will fly around. We check [людей] to the presence of bombs and weapons, but so far there are NO COUNTER-UAV SYSTEMS FOR MAJOR EVENTS AND PUBLIC AREAS”.
– Louis Venus writes.

Venus has described herself as an “open source absolutist”; This means he believes code and software should always be shared through open source channels. He also refers to himself as “e/acc”; This translates into a set of views among AI researchers who want to accelerate AI research despite its shortcomings, believing that the benefits will always outweigh the downsides. However, in this case, she said that she will not release any code related to this experiment.

Venus also warned that a terrorist attack could be organized with the help of such technology in the near future. Although creating such a system requires technical knowledge, over time it will become easier to write software thanks to artificial intelligence writing the code instead of humans.

According to Venus, the experiment showed that: society urgently needs to create anti-drone systems for civilian areas where large crowds of people can gather. There are a variety of countermeasures that society can create to detect drones, including cameras, acoustic sensors, and radars. However, their destruction may require technologies such as RF jammers, GPS spoofers, web weapons and high-energy lasers.