Startup Supplies A.I. Drones to U.S. Government

On March 6th, the website Activist Post published a news report that claimed that Google veterans had joined forces with the US government to “fill the sky” with artificially intelligent drones that could predict human behavior. The lead image for this article showed a drone with the word “SkyNet” formed out of the brand colors and old logo of Google, an allusion to technology from the apocalyptic Terminator franchise. The report warns of this technology saying, “the government always abuses the technology it has at its fingertips.”

This report soon spread across social media.