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I mean he can have his opinion on this, I do personally agree, but it's way too late to try and stop now.
We've already got automated drones picking targets and killing people in the middle east and last I heard the newest set of US jets has AI integrated so heavily that they can opt to kill their operator in order to perform objectives
Source?
Air force denies actual casualty and claims it was 'only a simulation', still problematic, assuming it stopped at a simulation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test
The above AI is allegedly the core of what's being used for these: https://www.wired.com/story/us-air-force-skyborg-vista-ai-fighter-jets/
You didn't ask for it but these are the drones that pick their own targets: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d