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