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Re:Killing Robots and Just War Theory by cabalamat on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:41AM (#27997102)
This is true. Killer robots push societies in the direction of being more hierarchial, for the reasons you state.
Re:Killing Robots and Just War Theory by abecedarius on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:40PM (#27998407)
This generalizes to automation of nonlethal means of population control -- crowd control weapons, surveillance and censorship. On the margin it'd hold for partial automation short of AGI -- reducing the needed size of the coalition on top.