Leader armed with killer robots, mass surveillance could imperil democracy Killer drone on display outside Russia's National Defense Management Center in Moscow.
Leader armed with killer robots, mass surveillance could imperil democracy Killer drone on display outside Russia's National Defense Management Center in Moscow. (Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters) KYIV -- Fourteen years ago, science fiction writer Daniel Suarez described swarms of autonomous killer drones attacking humans in his novelKill Decision. On the battlefields of Ukraine, drone technology has taken a leap forward, bringing his dark imaginings of such warfare closer to reality.