a sort of superweapon that not only detects and destroys, but can make that decision itself, and can be owned not just by states, but potentially by organisations, terrorist groups, anyone. this is the kind of dystopian reality that is being painted by critics — assassinations, private armies of bots, computers deciding whether humans live or die. these types of weapons that could easily be deployed and moved throughout different environments, like a swarm, the sort of embodiments of the robo—dog with the machine gun, and how easy they can proliferate, how easy they can fall into the hands of not what we think of as traditional militaries. gunfire this isn't about prohibiting or banning ai usage in the military, or even in weapon systems. it's about drawing a red line on the specific use case of weapons, which are these smaller types