Autonomous just means this narrative is what you’d see if you looked at the logs of the drone talking to itself in it’s head…?
(Spoilers for the ending of the movie: https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck?si=tTm9TidmEMBHsXq1 )
It can just say you were a terrorist because you were an adult male traveling with something in your hands. Humans already do this to justify strikes, likely the AI would do the same.
Alternatively: Assuming it's smart enough not to consider logging to /dev/null a reasonable way to speed up execution times.