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So in future weapons firms will be making armaments that look ostensibly like non-threatening objects?

Future wars are going to look really weird (for the half second or so they last, anyway).

If you only use the technology on battlefields then it doesn't really matter. The weapons used now kill indiscriminately.

I'd expect the first several generations will just have a kill box area and kill anything that moves in that box. Not really different than an artillary barage.

I guess they'd run a neural net with a training set of pictures of people with guns and without?

Edit-

I don't know what they used but you can achieve somewhat similar results using open source libraries like dlib or open cv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-KCoOFfqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-QuE6pdEQ

And if the training set doesn't include people holding shovels?

You're going to end up with some dead ditch-diggers.

And some software engineers to take the blame, rather than military brass.

those engineers would probably be brassed

I imagine it would be more like anyone within a geofence without an IFF.