For anyone who has been paying attention, the obvious next step in drone warfare that is going to happen, is that Ukraine is going to develop ai terminal guidance for their drones to counter Russian point defense electronic warfare.

The Russians are putting a lot of jammers on vehicles which disables fpv drones when they get too close so they can’t land an rpg hit. The obvious counter to Russian EW is not needing a radio connection in the first place.

I would assume once they have terminal guidance figured out they will keep on trying to extend the range and ability of the system to detect its own targets so that Russian area denial ew is also rendered ineffective.

By the time they have that figured out, you have a lethal autonomous weapon.

So I’d say, anyone who is concerned about the ‘hard decisions’ of lethal ai is living in the past, we have the means, the technology and with the existential nature of the war in Ukraine, every incentive to build these weapons, so we will.