The difference between this machine and the ones that came before is that there won’t have to be a human in the loop to execute mass murder.
There's a clear task being given to the robot. If anything this will save lives. There are plenty of soldiers that love to kill for the hell of it, at least this will be easy to track down to who gave the order.
Of course they will. Practically everything useful has a military application. I'm not sure why this is considered a hot take.