Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines

Reaction: If you need a cool topic for your Philosophy 407 term paper, or the click-bait articles you're writing for the web, then gushing about the murky morality of "AI" weapons of war is a great decision.

Vs. back in reality - consider the morality of the large and numerous marine minefields which both sides laid in WWI. (1914 to 1918.) Mines with no brains at all - they'd just blow up if a ship got too close. Regardless of "one of our ships" vs. "one of their ships" vs. "innocent civilian fishermen" vs. "the war ended 10 years ago" vs. whatever. Or WWI battlefield interactions of innocent civilians with either brainless artillery shells, or with hurried/angry/fatigued/hastily-trained/etc. soldiers who'd seen plenty of their comrades killed and were not interested in exposing themselves to enemy fire to be extra-sure that every seeming enemy soldier they shot at was really what they first guessed.