I’m pretty sure banning autonomous defensive weapons won’t happen because we already have them deployed. The Phalanx CIWS mounted on US Warships has a fully autonomous mode where it will fire on targets automatically.
It is there already but limited. Hospital ships are antsy about missles because CIWS are still considered weapons and they can't have them and at least one missle strike occurred at harbor because turning it on there would lead to unacceptable collateral damage to their backstop.
Nasrudith|7 years ago