Yeah, I mean, the essence of the idea of an autonomous weapon is a weapon that's making its own targeting decisions about which specific targets to strike.

When you lose comms with it, what do you want it to be able to do?

Does it come home?

Does it do reconnaissance?

It just take pictures?

Is it allowed to drop bombs on pre-programmed fixed targets?

What if it comes across targets of opportunity?

What do you want it to do?

You want to hold fire? Do you want to attack them? What if it's attacked? Is opportunity? What do you want it to do? You want to hold fire?

Do you want it to attack them?

What if it's attacked?

Is it allowed to use force to defend itself?

Well, how hard would it be to do this yourself?

Kind of a DIY, you know, do it yourself, autonomous weapon.

And somewhat terrifyingly, it's not that hard.

Because all of the tools you would need are commercially available.

You can buy a quadcopter, you can put a gun on it, people have done that.

You know, the decision-making processes you would need to maybe build like a terrorist

version of this to target people are you know openly

available to open source tools you can download online for free you can

download train neural networks that that can identify people and the skills that you

would need programming wise to build this are not that sophisticated.

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