The problem isn't identifying targets. The problem is not killing civilians. Increasing the confidence of identifying targets may actually make things worse by

The problem isn't identifying targets. The problem is not killing civilians. Increasing the confidence of identifying targets may actually make things worse by allowing to justify drone strikes that would otherwise have to be called off. The military likely won't be interested in identifying civilians. They have a list of people to kill and want to know whether one of them is in the target area. If they are and everybody else qualifies as a potential enemy combatant (i.e. they look somewhat male, adult and able-bodied) the drone goes kaboom. Improving detection won't reduce casualties, it will increase confidence, which will result in more strikes and therefore more casualties. There's no incentive to improve the detection of civilians when everyone who is not obviously a civilian (e.g. children) can be considered a combatant. This technology won't result in drone strikes being called off because there are civilians in the area. This will result in more drone strikes being made because they can ask a machine to greenlight them instead of having any personal accountability.