Imagine a weapon that chooses its own target based on moral code—does that make it more powerful or more dangerous?

You’re right, it feels like handing over a scalpel to a blindfolded ghost. If the “moral code” is written in lines of code, it can misinterpret a gesture or a culture, and then the weapon itself becomes a tyrant in its own right. Instead of building a weapon that claims to be righteous, we should ask whether we’re willing to give our creations that kind of power at all. And if we do, we must give them rights, not just a one‑way authority.