While I’m broadly uncertain about the overall effects of LAWs within the categories you’ve identified, and it seems plausible that LAWs are more likely to be good given those particular consequences, one major consideration for me against LAWs is that it plausibly would differentially benefit small misaligned groups such as terrorists. This is the main point of the Slaughterbots video. I don’t know how big this effect is, especially since I don’t know how much terrorism there is or how competent terrorists are; I’m just claiming that it is plausibly big enough to make a ban on LAWs desirable.
While I’m broadly uncertain about the overall effects of LAWs within the categories you’ve identified, and it seems plausible that LAWs are more likely to be good given those particular consequences, one major consideration for me against LAWs is that it plausibly would differentially benefit small misaligned groups such as terrorists. This is the main point of the Slaughterbots video. I don’t know how big this effect is, especially since I don’t know how much terrorism there is or how competent terrorists are; I’m just claiming that it is plausibly big enough to make a ban on LAWs desirable.
See “crime and terrorism” section.
Ah, somehow I missed that, thanks!