The argument is irrelevant. We know Russia and China are racing to field fully-autonomous systems. People who clutch their pearls about "morality" and "ethics" will be dead in the rubble because adversaries aren't going to worry about these concerns. The USA will almost certainly screw up fully-autonomous systems at first, mainly because Musk is a moron and Trump is vermin, but ultimately it is the inescapable future of warfare. As the people I talk to in Ukraine tell me every day, "whoever gets autonomy first gets a few weeks of advantage but if you don't get autonomy you get killed along with your children, your parents, your neighbors, your friends..." Flaccid complacent people in the West who are clueless about the realities of modern warfare can distract themselves with pointless pearl-clutching; the real world is already moving far beyond their sight.