The thing that really bothers me about the autonomous weapons stuff is the potential for tyranny. One of the tricks with running an oppressive regime is that yo

The thing that really bothers me about the autonomous weapons stuff is the potential for tyranny. One of the tricks with running an oppressive regime is that you still need people to do the actual enforcing. There's limits in just how far you can go based on what you can convince your own people to do to each other. Yeah, there's a lot of ways to use propaganda and other such tricks to get people to do things you wouldn't think they'd be willing to do, but there are still some absolute limits in there. Really good AI weapons could change the whole balance around though. Whatever weird, crazy thing you dream up, just order the AI bots to make people do it, and it will be done. No convincing needed, no limits.