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by Gracana 4078 days ago
For what it's worth, the US has already deployed weapons that pick their targets autonomously. [1] These artillery-launched UAVs just seem like a fancier version of the same idea. Whoever gives the go-ahead to fire it will just have to weigh the importance of the target against the extent of the collateral damage.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon