It matters because the US military utilised Palantir’s Maven Smart System, a battlefield-management AI designed to compress the "kill chain". It matters because these kind of incidents are more likely to happen in the future.
If your argument is you can’t trust democratically elected governments to make decisions about technology, say that. This banal “oh the children” and “but they’ll use it to kill people” is baby think.
I’m glad you find the killing of children banal. You’d fit right in at the Pentagon. Just make sure to top up on testosterone before you join.
We can't trust democratically elected governments to make decisions about novel technology.