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by todd8 1832 days ago
Banning autonomous weapons is a good idea, but history indicates that the bad guys might very well continue to develop them while claiming that they are not. For example, see the biological weapons program pursued by the former Soviet Union in secret despite being signatories of the international ban on biological weapons[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_prog...