The dangerous rise of military AI: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns

Chamayou seems to know where it's at. Eventually, there may not be solders. Then the two options are targeting civilians or industrial societies paying to test which of their tech toys can outdo the other.

As far as getting at the programmers, I imagine that the corporation behind the glitch would be held responsible, but no specific person would be charged with the glitch that caused the drone to malfunction and kill dozens.

Drone warfare is eventually a guaranteed occurrence. Once it becomes cheap and efficient enough, it can be argued for on the grounds of murder. You are sentencing your own soldiers to die for the same outcome as if you had used robots.

A commenter on reddit also noted that this makes escalations harder and colder, since sniping down a drone doesn't cause any human death, and is harder to rile people up with.

A previous warning, before everyone was distracted by more pressing disasters.