alarkyokie

“Authorizing a machine to make lethal combat decisions is contingent upon political and military leaders resolving legal and ethical questions,” according to an Air Force treatise called Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047. “These include the appropriateness of machines having this ability, under what circumstances it should be employed, where responsibility for mistakes lies and what limitations should be placed upon the autonomy of such systems.”
Technology advances raise new ethical questions relating to warfare.

A future for drones: automated killing - The Washington Post

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tomgoodman

I wonder if such drones are legally and ethically different from mines.

rickair7777

Depends on how accurate they are.

But even if they only nail bad guys 100% of the time there is still an ethical dilemma in my mind about automated warfare.

GunnF16

Automation can only be as good as it is programmed. A machine will only handle a situation well that has been thought of and programmed correctly by the engineers / software developers.