Bry: Relinquishing Control Over Kinetic Weapon Outcomes Is Not a New Concept
Adam Bry · Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here · Apr 11, 2025 · at 38:42
Adam Bry, cofounder and CEO of Skydio, contextualizes public concerns regarding autonomous drones by comparing them to historical unguided munitions.
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“At the conceptual level, a lot of these things are less new than they seem. So like, you know, dropping a bomb in World War II, like once that thing leaves the bomber, it's autonomous. Now it's, you know, it's pretty dumb autonomy, but there's no, you know, human judgment is over, right? Like that thing is falling and it's guided by gravity and wind and physics and other things. And at some point in that trajectory, if it starts heading towards the wrong place or you realize that it was the wrong target, there's nothing you can do about it. So you know, we are used to relinquishing control over the end outcome.”
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