A bit more scary is the political consequences. One of the strongest controls on rogue generals is that a fair chunk of their troops will mutiny if told to destroy their home country for said general's benefit, and logistical support would vanish.
Armies of killer robots start radically changing the calculations. It isn't obvious how but it probably removes a lot of the interest of more ordinary people and makes it a question of what the elites want. If the programmers are on side and the factories are mostly automatic, then the ability of people to push back on their own military becomes complicated.
Armies of killer robots start radically changing the calculations. It isn't obvious how but it probably removes a lot of the interest of more ordinary people and makes it a question of what the elites want. If the programmers are on side and the factories are mostly automatic, then the ability of people to push back on their own military becomes complicated.