Hello @pedrobrito2004,

thank you for your comment and point out @jjqf's article to me!

What really brought my thoughts a little down to earth was "Richard Moyes" presentation about what he, as a advocate for banning FAW/LAW with experience in fighting for a ban of other cruel weapons systems (cluster bombs), concentrates on in his work.

In a timeline he uses to explain what his work is about he highlighted the present capabilities of AI supported/driven systems, for example smart weapons systems that are directed against a group of armored verhicles and that "decide" on their own what targets they engage on (shape charges used). So they weapons are deployed to an limited area (100 ft or so) and they select the target to destroy in this vicinity by themselves. The last human intervention on such an attac is the firing of the weapon into the general area with the targets to engage on.

No compassion, no feeling at all but a clear set of rules, heat signatures for example, defines how the weapon acts.

In that regard an equivalent weapons system could be a land mine for example. Clear set of rules (stop on it and it blows up, more complex rules include setting off a while group of land mines if one is triggered) but otherwise fulfilling the criteria of an FAW.

So everything that goes beyond these clear set of rules methods, that would involve "feelings" or even possibly "consciousness" he sees as a possibility with an lower probability in an not so near future.

In regard to your closing statement in your comment I could not agree more!

Cheers!
Lucky