Militarized AI is nothing to celebrate. It should be banned or at least controlled with international agreements. 200K people died due to the atomic bomb, but AI weapons will not cause such apparent destruction. They will continue to be improved and integrated into the military and our culture. Because they will never be so scary to cause an outcry from the public or the experts, and politicians will not feel obliged to control them seriously.
Until it becomes completely accepted that flying robots kill human beings every other day... oh but wait. Already the case, never mind. It is okay I guess, as long as you are born in the country equipped with it.
I had an interview with Improbable in London, the CEO of their "Defense" research arm is a complete nutjob without any care for ethics or forward-thinking into the risk of what he is building. And that's a tech startup, I can't even imagine what's the mindset in the R&D labs of the old-school defence industry. Probably ridiculously entitled and self-congratulatory.