DOD officials say autonomous killing machines deserve a look
Just playing the devil&#x27;s advocate here:<p>* No soldiers of the side deploying armed drones need to be in danger.<p>* Robots do not act cruelly unless specifically instructed. Humans do have a pretty bad record of unnecessary cruelty due to racism, boredom, intoxication etc.<p>* If you log all descision making processes, you can justify each action taken. It&#x27;s like bodycams for police officers. If you&#x27;d make all logs public after the war it would be possible to identify war crimes and who gave the order (unlike now).<p>* Nothing requires a machine to use lethal force all the time. Systems which have the primary purpose of capturing combattants can be considered when there&#x27;s no risk of losing one of your own soldiers.<p>* Your robots priority doesn&#x27;t have to be self-preservation (unlike a human soldier). When in doubt, don&#x27;t shoot and analyze the situation.<p>All in all, if the military <i>would</i> use these autonomous killing machines with the intent of minimizing covilian casualties, would this not be an improvement over the current state of warfare? Of course it won&#x27;t make war per se less likely, but not using these machines doesn&#x27;t either. So why not use them?