Hunter-seekers are remotely controlled, yes?, avoiding the issue of automation of target recognition.
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Golden_Path#Objectives
The evolution of prescient hunter-seeker. You can look it up in 'God-Emperor of Dune' yourself if you want. It's one of the main plot points. The evolution of autonomous, self replicating killer machines driven by human power dynamics.
What else is AI but the attempt to predict and exploit human behavior?
The ideas that war is the father of many things (Heraclitus) and its creatures grow over man's head (Golem, Sorcerer's Apprentice) is not exactly new. I could probably dig up even older cultural knowledge from ancient Indian culture. The evolutionary dynamic of hunter and hunted is also old news.