*To improve* mass surveillance and autonomous attack systems with no human in the loop. China and USA already had those kind of systems way before AI.
Or least it didn't until the current regime.
The US does have autonomous defensive systems.
I could be wrong though, can you post your evidence? The closest I could find is loitering munitions.
Even so, a company shouldn't be forced to go against its ethics if those ethics help humans.
People are conscripted, they put on the uniform and become legitimate targets? It might as well be a robot doing the shooting. Same difference.
The pilot becomes responsible for those outcomes. For example indiscriminately killing civilians for example is a war crime. Its easier to get an AI to commit war crimes than humans.