IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Terrible Mercy of AI Killbots. “Let me cut to the chase and tell you right up front what happens when you remove the human from the AI killbot chain: You get dead enemy soldiers requiring zero human intervention. That was demonstrated in a real-world combat test we’ll discuss below. But the big issue is even bigger than battlefield Terminators, and it’s also the real subject of this week’s essay.”