Have you read the news lately? https://www.reuters.com/world/china-surprises-us-with-hypersonic-missile-test-ft-reports-2021-10-17/ https://www.reuters.com/wor

Have you read the news lately? https://www.reuters.com/world/china-surprises-us-with-hypersonic-missile-test-ft-reports-2021-10-17/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china-surprises-us-with-hypers... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58794094 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58794094 China has becoming increasingly aggressive in both its rhetoric and actions towards Taiwan, and this comes only shortly after they clearly violated their 50 year agreement with Hong Kong. They are testing increasingly advanced weapons. That's just reality - nothing to do with Cold War thinking. Maybe China decides not to build autonomous killer robots, but we absolutely can't be sure of that. If they do end up with that technology and we don't have it, it puts us at a huge military disadvantage against an increasingly aggressive superpower. Making it illegal domestically makes no sense whatsoever if China develops the technology. The risk with autonomous killer robots is in their existence - if something goes wrong, they start deciding to kill the wrong people. If China has them and we don't, that doesn't reduce that risk at all. But if China has them and we don't it, then we're at risk both of something going wrong with the robots and of China using them against us. At least if we develop our own, we can counter the latter threat.