Scary stuff.Shades of Terminator. In the same way that all those disaster movies over the years prefigured September 11.

Here is a piece in todays Gurardian on the same lines - essentially they are both recycling the same stuff - "The war after next".

Interesting in both pieces that they clean it all up by talking about "the battlefield" - leaving aside the reality tha in wars from now on the "battlefield" tends to mean cities and towns, full of ordinary people getting blown to bits.

What we need are Asimov's Robotic Laws, especially the one about no robot being able to harm a human being.