Daniel Suarez : The kill decision shouldn’t belong to a robot | Talk Video

Seventy nations are developing remotely-piloted combat drones of their own, and as you’ll see, remotely-piloted combat drones are the precursors to autonomous robotic weapons. That’s because once you’ve deployed remotely-piloted drones, there are three powerful factors pushing decision-making away from humans and on to the weapon platform itself.
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the third and most powerful incentive pushing decision-making away from humans and onto weapons: plausible deniability. (...) sifting through the wreckage of a suicide drone attack, it will be very difficult to say who sent that weapon.

This raises the very real possibility of #anonymous_war.