“There are actually reasonable uses for highly advanced autonomous weaponry. Any building or office belonging to Monsanto, for example, comprises an excellent practice range, and all of them should be used, regularly.

Hunting down and assassinating the CEOs of companies like Bayer and BP, or Phizer… these seem reasonable applications as well. We can use drones to accomplish socio-political evolution at a radically increased rate. You dump 8 billion gallons of oil and toxins into the sea? Drone strike, pal. You’re a statistic now.

People who are polluting the environment egregiously and illegally? Drone strike. Whaling ship? Drone strike. Ivory poachers? Bang. Gone. I imagine Derrick Jensen’s followers assembling and activating autonomous drones capable of obliterating dams, or freeing prison inmates.

Finally, I would like to see drones take on urban noise control. That Harley that can be heard for a three mile radius because it is actually a wandering sonic attack on life itself? BOOM. Charred remains on the asphalt. That 3:45 car alarm that wakes 200 people for the 5th time in a week? BOOM. Charred remains on the asphalt.

I think the idea of autonomous weapons platforms is completely insane. But then, so, too, is the world they emerge from and within. If we have to have both, let’s pit them against each other!”

— an anonymous informant