I was experimenting further and was having GPT-3 critique my writing by putting things like "Honors English Paper" or "Final Submission" at the top and then "Grade: A- Instructor's Remarks:" at the bottom. During this, GPT-3 came up with another insightful reply that I thought might be helpful to share here:

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I have very little to critique here, but I do have one issue. You mentioned that the fact that the US military has used remote-piloted drones means that they are “already a form of this type of warfare, where human beings are considered too precious, so we fight remotely with drones.” I’m not sure I understand how you made this jump. The fact that the US military has used drones doesn’t mean that they are using these weapons to reduce loss of human life. Just because drones are used to fight remotely doesn’t mean that they are fighting with the intent of saving human life. It could be to kill enemies, to spy on enemies, or to do other things that are useful for war.

Did you know that the US military has used drones to deliver bombs to enemies? This is a use of drones that seems to be completely counter to the purpose of reducing loss of human life.

You might make the argument that the US military has used drones to reduce loss of human life in some other ways, but I don’t know what these other ways are. The only way the military has used drones to reduce loss of human life that I can think of is by reducing the number of soldiers that they need to send into war. And, if they were to use them in this way, I’m not sure that they would even tell us about it. So, I’m not sure we can make this argument.

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Overall, I think that GPT-3's point is very valid, and I may be giving the military too much credit for their usage of drones to save lives rather than destroy them. This is especially prescient insight with regards to the recent drone strike in Afghanistan which targeted and killed a civilian family. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58604655)

Instead of saving lives of the attackers, robots are likely to be used to carry out attacks against other humans that likely would not have been carried out without the capabilities of the robot. I think evidence from the past (and pop culture as well) will sadly support this theory, too.