Under the Biden regime, drone attacks on terrorists outside the battlefield need the approval of the president.
In March 2021, the New York Times reported that outside the battlefield, the US Department of Defense and the CIA need the approval of the White House to carry out drone attacks on terrorists and other targets. In the Trump administration, the US military and CIA allowed attacks on targets without the judgment of the president, but became the Biden administration, changing the rules of drone attacks. Defense Department spokesman John Kiribe said: "at present, the president's permission for drone attacks is temporary." The president's approval of drone strikes does not mean stopping them. We will indeed continue to work with the international community to counter the threat of violent groups. " In other words, if the president allows it, he will continue to attack.
Drone reconnaissance, surveillance and attacks have been heavily used since President Bush, especially during the Obama administration, when drone attacks intensified in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. At this time, there are also a lot of accidental bombings on ordinary local citizens. Trump also carried out drone attacks on Somalia when he was in office.
With the development of AI technology, the development of autonomous killing weapons of AI-based UAV, which is called killer robot for AI identification and target attack, is about to be promoted without intervention in human judgment. International non-governmental organizations and 30 countries around the world oppose the development and use of autonomous lethal weapons because such autonomous weapons do not kill targets through human judgment and are therefore immoral.
The Pakistani teenager Nabila is famous for the victims of accidental drone bombings. Miyada's "two Girls involved in the War on Terror" between Nabila and Malala (talk Press, 2017) records the situation at the time of the attack and the attitude and response of the US government after the attack (in bold).
Even if attacks like this are carried out according to human judgment, many ordinary citizens have been killed as a result of accidental attacks on drones. Can it be said that AI identification and attack judgment may reduce the number of victims of ordinary citizens caused by false explosions.
This time, the drone strike in the Biden regime needs the president's approval. Even if attacks are carried out according to the judgment of human soldiers, ordinary citizens will die as a result of accidental bombings. Moreover, human judgment is not always moral and moral. History has proved that since the beginning of the 20th century, mankind has done the most brutal things to mankind, such as the killing of Jews in Nazi Germany (Holocaust), the massacre of Polport in Cambodia, the massacre in Rwanda, and the national purification of Bosnia.