wedrifid comments on Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Freedom and Democracy - Less Wrong
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For a start, I don't believe you. People have done comparable things for tyrants in the past (complete albeit probably inefficient dedication of the resources of the given tribe to the objectives of the tyrant---horseback archers and small moustaches spring to mind). But that isn't the primary problem here.
The primary problem would be with a country creating the army in the usual way that a country creates an army but that once owned this army would be much easier for an individual (or a few) to control. It makes it easier for such people to become tyrants and once they are to retain their power. This kind of thing (a general seizing control by use of his control of the military) is not unusual for humans. Killer robots make it somewhat easier. Controlling many humans is complicated and unreliable.