these questions from sci—fi movies, but this is very real, a very real life consequences to it as well. absolutely. we are all familiar with drones which are used quite extensively in conflict zones already. with these you see the user, the human being does have the final decision whether thatjerome takes that attack at the last few minutes or not. the next step up, some of these are also being used apparently are pre—programmed art weapons, killer robots if you like, where they apparently know what they are going to do, who they will kill even long before they leave their port. so you have this big ethical question, who is the chain of command? who if something goes catastrophically wrong, hundreds of civilians get killed, who is