Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER

In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear is obsolete. Take out your entire enemy virtually risk free. Just characterize him, release the swarm, and rest easy.

“Slaugherbots” by Stewart Sugg

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The 7 minute film opens with a Silicon Valley CEO-type delivering a product presentation to a live audience a la Steve Jobs. The presentation seems innocuous enough at first—the presenter seems to be unveiling some new drone technology—but takes a dark turn when he demonstrates how these autonomous drones can slaughter humans like cattle by delivering “a shaped explosive” to the skull.The audience eats it up, clapping and laughing along with the CEO as if they hadn’t witnessed anything more dangerous than the unveiling of the iPhone X. The CEO goes further, showing videos of the tiny killer drone in action. “Let’s watch what happens when the weapons make the decisions,” the CEO says, as the bot executes a number of people on the massive screen behind him. “Now trust me, these are all bad guys.” What follows is a deeply unsettling portrait of a dystopian world where these small weaponised drones use their onboard technologies—“cameras like you use for your social media apps, facial recognition like you have on your phones!”—to make autonomous decisions about who lives and who dies.

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Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER

[BenRoberts-dbtg]

*puts on face mask*
Drone: I've never seen this man before in my life

[TomNook.]

Civilians: This is terrifying
Governments: What a great idea

[thatonekidonaboat]

I think the most disturbing thing was the laughter when then the robbers where getting killed when he was running away. Also I watched this when I was younger and I thought it was real- that was fucking terrifying

[justinbarker]

"Hey look, that must be Amazon with my package!"
"..."
"..."
"Wait a minute..."

[dulvinbandara]

“Kill half a city”
Thanos: First time?

[aromview]

THe real scary part about all this is that it's all too real

[justinb.]

wow. the talk from the professor at the end just kicked it up a notch. Im studying cyber security, and what he said is 10000% true. There's no way once these exist, if they don't already, would ever be used for good. It's been proven time and again people LOVE power. And they will hang on to it at all costs. An invention like these would give way too much power to any one individual. It just chills my blood to see so many people in the comments joking about this. These can be made water-proof. Tennis rackets wouldn't stop them, neither will ballbats. EMPs can be prevented against with the right casing. It's truly chilling stuff.

[stick]

"can't be stopped"
EMP: I'm about to ruin this man's entire career.

[TheDerpyDog]

They can’t be stopped

Heavy rain: “ I’m about to end this mans whole career “

[JohnnysCafe_]

That was not a short horror film, that is more like a warning ... Well made and I'm sure everyone will remember this and even bring it up in conversation, if someone gets assassinated and there's no suspect, we will be like ..., "could it have been....?" 😳

[ooxoo]

This is 3 years old, and had never been so actual.
Horrific...

[ghoulslame]

*slightly covers face*

Drones: alright then keep your secrets

[Je-yjbc]

Drone killing half a city
EmP: *heavy breathing*

[garyd.crowley]

This is more bone chilling than any ghost or demon story. This could be very real and the apparition of the professor really gives the appropiate effect.

[razordu]

The most disturbing thing about this film is that the beginning has been cut out and reposted as a real TED talk, and people have talked about how "cool" it is.

[overlordbrandon]

"Drone Killer Robots are Unstoppable"
Nanobots: *_Laughing at Microscopic Scale_*

[maxdoubt]

They kill without mercy. They have no compassion.

This helmet I'm wearing is not about fashion.

[COCODIYGAMER]

Damn this was a good short horror film. I don't understand why so many dislikes This can happen in the future.

[tiberiu_nicolae]

I remember when this was fiction. Now drones are decimating soldiers on Ukrainian battlefields.

[strider]

"Can't be stopped"
A strong gust of wind: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"