Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines

Evidence

Once the remotely controlled machine becomes a weapon of war, it is the enemy who is treated as a dangerous material. He can be eliminated from afar as one watches on a screen, softly enclosed within a climatized “safe zone.” Asymmetrical warfare becomes radicalized, unilateral. Of course people would still die, but only on one side. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142 (#expands, via linked claim)

A drone can be controlled either from a distance by human operators (remote control) or autonomously by robotic means (automatic piloting). In practice, present-day drones combine those two modes of control. Armies do not yet have at their disposal operational autonomous lethal robots, although as we shall see, there are already advanced plans for those. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 106 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A 1960s reader proposed directing telechiric machines toward warfare first; Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 106; Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142

Related

• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.90)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.90)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.88)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (similarity 0.87)
• The Pentagon aims for drones to exert lethal force without human control (similarity 0.86)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.86)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.84)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.83)
• Drone dominance of warfare is not an inexorable historical fate (similarity 0.82)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.82)
• Drones centralize kill authority upward into hierarchy rather than handing control to machines (similarity 0.82)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.82)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.82)
• Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators (similarity 0.82)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 106