Jason DeBolt: 

Once you start seeing videos of 20 year old kids begging for their lives before drones that are about to blow them up, this is a good time to pause as a human.

Did we really just see that and pretend that it was no big deal?

As a society we basically went from "robots shouldn't kill" just a few years ago to swiping left at kids regularly getting blown up in drone footage, by robots. It's happening now.

And yes, some of the night "vampire bomber" drones in Ukraine that destroy tanks are fully autonomous already.

I don't think most of us are fully aware of what we are getting involved with here. I wasn't fully aware until I saw that kid begging for his life.

Now imagine this isn't an FPV drone with a human operator that can decide whether or not to pull the trigger, but an automated drone that doesn't give a shit about your begging and praying. And there are tens of thousands of them in a swarm killing everyone in a city with extreme precision, and we don't know who is controlling them. Ask yourself again, do we want this as a species?

After the Ukraine war is over, Ukraine will export their drones and drone expertise to other countries. A lucrative new industry will flourish. Nearly every country on earth will have millions of drones ready to be launched with launch codes, like nukes, to pre-programmed hard targets and even specific human populations. And leaders will be more likely to launch drones than nukes.

These will eventually be the most effective killing machines on earth, second only to nukes. But unlike nuclear weapons, automated killing drones will actually be used to kill hundreds of millions of people  (or more) in this century.

AI powered drone swarms are effectively high precision nukes at scale but without the disastrous environmental impact of nuclear fallout. And they are relatively cheap and easy to manufacture by ONE PERSON.

Elon is right, all future wars will be drone wars. There's nothing that will stop this.