Comment by lukebuehler

There is a really good discussion on exactly this analogy in the Jonas paper I posted in a top-level comment. Jonas considers Torpedoes (starting on p. 182, section III). Unfortunately too long to post here. But he asks where to locate purpose and agency in these automated systems. So as with the article, the question is less in "can these things be dangerous" but more where does the agency and intent reside. The answer is of course they can be used as weapons, but the intent and motivation does not really reside in the mechanism (drone, torpedo, AI agent), but in the humans behind them. The fallacy is trying to attribute full autonomy (and hence responsibility).