Also, as someone from a country that has been attacked and dragged into war, I would prefer machines fighting (and being destroyed autonomously) rather than my people dying, nor people from any nation that came to help.
That's as Anthropic as it gets if your nerve expands a little bit further than your HOA.
What about machines slaughtering the population without pause?
>> I would prefer machines fighting (and being destroyed autonomously) rather than my people dying
What makes you think in any war the machines would stop at just fighting other machines?
The more likely scenario will be "your people" dying in a war against machines that don't tend to disregard illegal orders.
> would prefer machines fighting (and being destroyed autonomously) rather than my people dying
But the reality is more like the surprise of a bunch of submersible kill bots terrorising a coastal city and murdering people. Even in bot-first combat, at some point one side of bots wins either totally, allowing it to kill people indiscriminately or partially, which forces the team on the back foot to pivot to guerilla warfare and terror attacks, using robots.