[Roark66]

>The U.S. army wouldn't fire on civilian protestors, regardless of what a general ordered.

World doesn't work like this. You'd think human sanity would prevail if given an order like that as some sort of built it "safety", but people who want to give orders like this can do it in a way that ensures they are complied with. Imagine the soldiers are told there are people with hidden guns in the crowd. Then you get few snipers to take out few soldiers from the crowd's direction and vice versa. The crowd starts shooting back as well as the soldiers.

Do you think this scenario is far fetched? That's exactly what happened during the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine some years ago except instead of soldiers there was police. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipe...

People are fully capable of killing each other with no help from AI.