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We already have something very close to automated killing machines: anti-aircraft missiles. Couples with radar systems they can identify hostile and go and destroy them pretty much without human guidance

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The chilling aspect of drone assassinations in terms of automation is that people and subsequently devalued collateral damage is detected, ranked and classified with statistical techniques, as if regression to the mean will bring back that wedding party that just got turned into a pile of limbs with a hellfire missile.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-attacks/tw...

Better in this context means more bombs on foreheads.

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