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This is a very good comment and perspective. I am not a vet and don't have anything close to the experiences that it seems that you have. That being said, many

This is a very good comment and perspective. I am not a vet and don't have anything close to the experiences that it seems that you have. That being said, many of my friends and roommates from college are in active duty military positions, and it's scary to hear when they're being deployed. Even though a program like this might save some lives in the short term, training machines that don't have empathy and can be programmed for whatever means to kill seems like a Pandora's Box that we should be damn sure we want to open before actually doing so. Also, my apologies for the less-than-respectful replies that you are getting. You should not be chastised for respectfully sharing an important opinion, and their behavior is unbecoming of what we should expect of American citizens.

davidf18 8y ago
I am not a vet but I escaped being a terrorist attack victim in Israel when I fortunately stepped into a store just a moment before the attack. I do know many Israelis and almost all of them are required to serve in the military. One person I know shot a terrorist who targeted a bus with a machine gun. I know many Israelis work for firms such as Google and I wonder how many of them feel that we shouldn't be developing technology to defend American troops. Unlike in Israel, much of military service in the US can be a class issue -- many go into the military to pay for a college education. It might truly be ironic and sad if Israelis were more interested in saving American military lives than Americans are. We owe it to our fellow Americans in the military to develop our great American technology to help protect them. Perhaps those that disagree should spend some time with combat troops overseas, but of course that isn't possible.