Not sure that state-of-the-art precision guided munitions and weapon systems can be described as 'autonomous systems' if they rely on a real-time comms link to an #AI in some data centre somewhere in the CONUS, but there are bigger issues to grapple with...
What should the default target set include?
We would like it to be 'No Humans' (be they civilians, our soldiers or enemy combatants); a list to which exceptions must be made explicitly in the machines' #ROE
When one thinks of the leading lights in #AI development (Musk et al), one worries the default target set factory settings will be 'All Humans'