Robot Uprising? Completely autonomous military vehicles are dangerously close to becoming a reality.

The U.S. Military’s X47B is designed to refuel itself and land by itself on an aircraft carrier. What comes next is the problem.

A fifty page joint report by the Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic warns that the next step is for these unmanned machines to be able to make life and death decisions, firing on particular targets deemed to be threats, without the need for a human go-ahead.