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To be honest, I think our only chance / defense is to build these and put 100% of the emphasis on training them to eradicate any ground or air based killbots as quickly as possible. Humans are not even remotely a threat when it comes to AI powered autonomous killbots. We need defensive bots. These wouldn't need anti-human designed weapons most likely.

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In my imagination, the optimal antibots for use against the current generation of tiny drone (like converted commercial quad copters), are miniature versions of WW1 and/or WW2 era fighter planes, armed with automatic guns in the 3-5mm range. If accuracy gets good enough, the cost of shooting down a drone may come down to $10 or so worth of ammo, and unlike robots catching other robots using nets, these could shoot down serveral enemies before running out of ammo.

The problem is that I don't know how to prevent these drones from being able to fire at humans, if the software allowed it.

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