The Air Force has requested $5.8 billion in its budget to build AI-driven combat aircraft. The Air Force says that the autonomous aircraft are ideal for completing suicide missions and protecting pilots. But human rights advocates say letting technology take lives crosses a moral boundary.

"You're stepping over a moral line by outsourcing killing to machines, by allowing computer sensors rather than humans to take human life.” – Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch.

I don't get the moral part though because killing is killing, no matter how it's done...