to secure the circumstances that cannot happen in warfare is a very strong chance of we're going to get a new arms race like a cold war the us against human dignity to have a machine delegated with the decision to kill a human. proponents of autonomous weapon systems respond that it's all just a matter of programming one of them american robotics expert ronald arkin as working on an ethical standard that can be programmed into military robots. the systems will not only decide when to shoot they will decide when not to shoot warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions you can put that capability into an autonomous if the system should have the ability if you. executing it on ethical order. another topic being discussed in geneva is where the software can make more epic a sound the same. as for the human the u.s.