building. autonomous weapons combine a confluence of different technologies: drones, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and big data to create a sort of super—weapon 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 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.