&gt; Back to the original point of the article it is important that international standards limiting such devastating weapons be enacted and enforced.<p>One of the reasons I&#x27;m skeptical about the importance of this is, I guess I still don&#x27;t understand what the nightmare scenario is. You call these weapons &quot;devastating&quot; and say that they will lead to even more death and suffering than currently existing weapons. How? An autonomous robot with a gun can&#x27;t kill you any more dead than a human with a gun, and as Assad and Putin have demonstrated the lack of robots didn&#x27;t keep them from just sending humans instead.