alt Hacker News>A less charitable interpretation is that the current doctrine is "China / Russia will build autonomous killbots, so we can't allow a killbot gap".
What's the reason this is less charitable, exactly? Do we think this isn't true, or that we think it's immoral to build the Terminator even if China/Russia already have them?
I don't know what you're trying to argue about here. I meant "charitable" as in "not necessarily implying the thing critics worry about". The less charitable interpretation is that the implied thing is true but is seen as a necessity.
We'll leave the morality of war for another time.