The big problem is proliferation as these new war bots become cheaper.
China, RU, the US and the EU won't go around doing wanton destruction just because. They will have predictable calculus behind their decisions (for example, neither has take the opportunity to take out the NK leader, while any one of them could remotely with little repercussion --aside form some international grandstanding)
On the other hand, you get this in the hands of dictators, such as the aforementioned, or Maduro or Castro, or al Baghdadi and who knows what they would unleash internally or against regional rivals.
For that reason, I'd support a complete and enforced ban. With the possible exception that we might battle extra terrestrial aliens if they are the ungood kind.
Ban only works if you agree to it. The technology that does not require rare radioactive isotopes tends to trickle down really quickly. Today's unachievable technical capability will cost five dollars 50 years from now. I'm not sure if any of this can be banned per se. The solution seems to be to have robots that are better by an order of magnitude.
To clarify I mean ban and enforce the ban (enforced by CN, RU, EU and US). Non compliance results in severe economic penalties/blockades. Use the UN in all possible ways. The big-4 might agree to something like this lest they repeat the nuke proliferation problem.
China, RU, the US and the EU won't go around doing wanton destruction just because. They will have predictable calculus behind their decisions (for example, neither has take the opportunity to take out the NK leader, while any one of them could remotely with little repercussion --aside form some international grandstanding)
On the other hand, you get this in the hands of dictators, such as the aforementioned, or Maduro or Castro, or al Baghdadi and who knows what they would unleash internally or against regional rivals.
For that reason, I'd support a complete and enforced ban. With the possible exception that we might battle extra terrestrial aliens if they are the ungood kind.