Good luck with this, no seriously, good luck. Our technological capability moves forward whether we want it, even fight it, or not. It can be slowed somewhat (the electric car being one example, stem cell research another) but it will happen and we will need laws and frameworks to ensure we deal with this change appropriately sooner rather than later.
This is the equivalent of hiding our heads in the sand.
Unfortunately, it couldn't come at a worse time - a time when even the most "democratic" countries on Earth are pushing for their people to have fewer rights, more censorship, more surveillance, more torture, more secret assassinations and so on.
You're right, but I'd still like some assurances that police won't be setting these things up. I can imagine police departments salivating over metal storm type machines with rubber bullets.
> we will need laws and frameworks to ensure we deal with this change appropriately sooner rather than later
You really think the state is going to hamstring itself? Because states are creating the demand for and purchasing autonomous killing tools like Metal Storm[1], not private entities.
This is the equivalent of hiding our heads in the sand.