AI wrote code to make a $100 drone stalk someone using facial recognition

A new evaluation reveals how publicly available AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI can create software to control cheap drones and track a person based on facial recognition.

SAN FRANCISCO — A drone powered by AI-written software stalks its human target around the house using facial recognition, gliding through doorways and navigating around lamps. It isn’t a scene from science fiction. The cheap consumer drone, flying hands- and (mostly) human-free, is being directed by programs built with widely available AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies.

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