Artificial Intelligence: Time of the Weak
... such systems, and the unwillingness of governments to give up on the promising technology [ 2 ]. Nevertheless, it would be an oversimplification to restrict the arguments in favour of establishing control over autonomous weapons exclusively to the domain of morality and ethics. Strategic stability is also at risk [ 5 ]: first, the use of autonomous systems could lead to uncontrolled escalation of armed conflicts with unpredictable consequences; second, exports of such systems would be difficult to control. Indeed, the handover of a cruise missile is hard to conceal, and its range is limited ...