The risk here isn't that the drones are too smart, it's that they've been given too much power.

No. Actually. That is not the risk I'm discussing here. I would not argue that it isn't dangerous to give them the ability to kill. It is. But I do argue that my point here is that lethal autonomy could give people too much power - that is to say, to redistribute power unevenly, undoing all the checks and balances and threatening democracy.