> More critically, it’s nearly impossible to externally distinguish between a kill made with human oversight or machine autonomy, blurring the lines of accounta

> More critically, it’s nearly impossible to externally distinguish between a kill made with human oversight or machine autonomy, blurring the lines of accountability on the battlefield. This seems like the real threat to me. The ethics of outright autonomous weapons have a straightforward solution, at least in theory: giving the order to deploy them is precisely morally equivalent to pulling the trigger yourself. A flying bullet is a simpler system than an autonomous network of machine guns, but you still set it in motion and are responsible for its path. No, the tricky part is when you can't tell who set it in motion.