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When a human in a plane drops a bomb on a school full of kids, we don't charge anyone with a war crime. Why would we start charging people with war crimes when we make the plane pilotless?
The autonomy of these killer toys is always overstated. As front-line trigger pullers, they're great. But they still need an enormous support staff and deployment team and IT support. If you want to blame someone for releasing a killer robot into a crowd of civilians, its not like you have a shortage of people to indict. No different than trying to figure out who takes the blame for throwing a grenade into a movie theater. Everyone from the mission commander down to the guy who drops a Kill marker on the digital map has the potential for indictment.
But nobody is going to be indicted in a mission where the goal was to blow up a school full of children, because why would you do that? The whole point was to murder those kids.
Israelis already have an AI-powered target-to-kill system, after all.
Literally the entire point of this system is to kill whole families.