The alternative is not doing it. Do I really need to spell out why drone strikes are already ethically questionable? Improving automated recognition will not r

The alternative is not doing it. Do I really need to spell out why drone strikes are already ethically questionable? Improving automated recognition will not reduce civilian casualties, it will only help justifying the strikes because instead of having humans say they identified the target based on its height they can say the computer did it (based on "deep learning", i.e. based on its height but with computers). The analogy is highly misleading. Poisoned Cheerio deliveries would be highly targeted. Drone strikes are not. The only way drone strikes avoid civilian casualties at the moment is by defining casualties as terrorists until proven otherwise (e.g. if they're children) and not having sufficient data to accurately say how many people were killed.