Killer robots, primarily drones which will have AI sophisticated enough to be able to make autonomous decisions about killing, are soon to be developed by the United States, China, Israel and almost certainly Russia. There has been a move to have the UN make a binding resolution to restrict this use, but the above countries, and Australia as well, are opposing this. The idea from the US perspective is, as US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, said in a speech earlier this year, to counter China’s People's Liberation Army's (PLA): “We'll counter the PLA's mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat.”
An inevitable AI arms race is now occurring, and it is difficult to see how this can be halted with communist China’s relentless drive to conquer the planet. The spin-off will be the ultimate use of these robots as civil police to be used by the Deep State to deal with troublemakers. Why discuss the science and technology? Because the world is fast becoming a technocratic dystopia, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.