We've been creating indirection ever since the first homo ancestor carved/fashioned a spear tip or arrow, or the first metallurgist poured a bronze sword. But.

We've been creating indirection ever since the first homo ancestor carved/fashioned a spear tip or arrow, or the first metallurgist poured a bronze sword. But. There's matters of degrees. And this is just one or two steps away from full autonomous murder. Reminds me of this section Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune: ... She would carry with her forever afterward the clear sights and sounds and smells. The seeking machines would be there, the smell of blood and entrails, the cowering humans in their burrows, aware only that they could not escape . . . while all the time the mechanical movement approached, nearer and nearer and nearer ...louder...louder! ...like the terrible machines of that apocalyptic vision, the predator could follow any creature who left tracks.*