a computer by the skin think you know drones be used in the future to specifically target and kill people. to frank sala this sort of scenario raises primarily ethical questions i mean it's one very fundamental worry is that a dehumanization of those people that die takes place because nobody has to deal with the fact that they've died on the battlefield. instead of the reduced to mere data and numbers which an anonymous machine works through want to tell directly. about it at the united nations they've been debating a ban on autonomy as weapons for years now so far unsuccessfully resistance to a ban comes from russia the u.s. and china amongst others the debate centers on whether autonomous weapons are reconcilable with international law critics are worried about a new arms race with on forseeable consequences. as you start to realize that humans are controlling element have completely fallen out of the equation and when you have algorithms that make decisions or. decisions on...