&gt;Currently, robots&#x2F;ai are like the gun issues of today. Guns don&#x27;t kill people. People do and legislating gun control is sticky (so is regulating ai).<p>I think there&#x27;s a big difference between gun regulation and drone&#x2F;ai regulation. If in 20 years we have drones that could patrol a location and can use some sort of force on targets it deems a threat, this technology that you own and are responsible for could kill people while you sleep. With guns, you hold it and you pull the trigger. With automated drones, you could be out of the way of danger entirely and making decisions based on the drone&#x27;s camera output, or even have the drone make these sorts of decisions while you are away.<p>Of course, this is all hypothetical and we&#x27;ve never accurately predicted the future of most technologies, but the issues of drones and ai being used for lethal purposes already have the potential to be larger issues than guns. You wouldn&#x27;t need to mobilize an army if you could buy as many &quot;troops&quot; as you could afford.