AI generated kill lists are sadly inevitable. Had hoped we'd get a few more years before we'd actually see it being deployed. Lots to think about here
Edit: And the humans who approved the list should be help accountable, of course.
This does seem to be a big step more “AI” than previous systems I’ve heard described though.
No weapons are nice, but if the good guys don't develop AI weapons, the bad guys will.
From what I gather, many US engineers are morally opposed to them. But if China develops them and gets into a war with the US, will Americans be happy to lose knowing that they have the moral high ground?
Development of tools of death is not a good guy/bad guy thing. The "bad guys" think the "good guys" are bad.
I think "killing" is bad, no matter who develops the tools.
Germany and Japan were killing millions of innocents in WW2. Not only that, but those killings were entirely unnecessary.
At least with Israel I can give some of the benefit of the doubt that their civilian casualties have some strategic outcome. You cannot say the same of Germany and Japan in WW2.
(please be charitable to the above; there is a lot of nuance here; I don't want to explicitly spell it all out. look at my other comments if you want to know my views)
The ends were admirable. The means are debatable and in some cases regrettable.