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'Bad guys' is very subjective. I would argue that anyone who wants a flying death machine capable of killing people with a button-push from thousands of miles a

• dredmorbius 14y ago
  The interpret the phrase as "your enemy". The US and its allied forces presently have an overwhelming superiority in drone devices (airborne as well as land and sea based). Other parties are likely to catch up, even if only with more primitive devices and at smaller volumes of production, relatively quickly. The scenario which becomes ... interesting ... is where all parties have access to technology of this type. Criticisms of the US notwithstanding, the nation generally acts with some level of conscience and oversight. The same cannot be said of all adversaries. An Al Qaeda, North Korea, Iran, or African warlord with such weapons would likely have far fewer reservations in their use. Even conventional RC aircraft, radio and GPS controls, and small explosives or other ordinance could be used to lethal effect.
• snogglethorpe 14y ago
  > 'Bad guys' is very subjective Sure, and that's one of the reasons I used such an obviously vague phrase. The point being that no matter who you define as good or bad, once the cat's out of the bag, it's out, and probably this stuff will be acquired by, and used by, people whose goals you abhor. And that's really scary. [I don't think that there's some sort of inherent connection of the tech with "bad", because there are always going to be certain uses, if maybe very narrow ones, which the vast majority of people would find justified. E.g. blah blah Hitler blah blah.]