Trump and the Pentagon are fighting for AI weaponry.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. That cartoon is perceptive

The moral aspects of novel weaponry has surfaced over the centuries. Supposedly a great theological debate pre-Crusades was whether it was permissible for knights to kill people.

There were British Generals prior to WWII who opposed Churchill's development of SOE tactics. Limpet bombs, and others, were novel at the time and some say decisive in winning the war.

There is a YouTube video that says we turned the Battle of the Bulge when we used some novel weapon, it was some kind of cluster shell that exploded mid-air and dropped shrapnel straight downward. Some debated its morality at the time. I seem to recall Ike was none to keen.

So increased lethality is nothing new. That doesn't make it moral.