The article drums up a hypothetical scenario ("a semi-trailer full of autonomous drones carrying small shaped charges could kill a million New Yorkers, just for

The article drums up a hypothetical scenario ("a semi-trailer full of autonomous drones carrying small shaped charges could kill a million New Yorkers, just for instance!") and then suggests we could counteract the Omniviolence that The World Is Not Ready for by submitting to a Panopticon society or making an AI our Philosopher King. This is not serious minded analysis, but it's not fun either. It's just bad clickbait. No system can stop every dedicated attacker to begin with. Technology gives people leverage in all their activities, including doing violence to one another. Writing an article in Nautilus that amounts to idle musing about a comic book villain's murderbot scheme and then trying to burnish it as Very Serious at the end with name dropping and the author's academic credentials is so lame.