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The USA tends to kill way more civilians than any other military in the world though, so I’m not sure it’s a good example.

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Only the USA has enough war experience and drones for us to have high confidence stats on the performance of human drone operators (military vs. civilian targets) vs. AI.

Ukraine and Russia have infinitely more experience with drone warfare than the US.

Stats from Russia/Ukraine are not good. And the ones that exist, could be dismissed for various reasons ("Russians are savages so it doesn't count", "Ukraine is defending itself in existential war so it doesn't count").

With the USA the stats are available and no valid excuses exist to throw the data away. The US military is not defending itself and is supposed to be the most powerful, advanced (tech and policy) and professional military in the world. They are the best case scenario for the human drone operators' performance one has. And yet:

https://worldmetrics.org/obama-drone-strikes-statistics/

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