Robotic Nation Evidence

The final reasoning is a bit off. Why would you expect an exponential growth from two data points?

Let's look behind the curtain: it still takes more than one human to operate a UAV. They have tried to solve the "swarm" problem for quite some time but little success so far. So if in 4 years the number of operators tripled, that would be very far from exponential growth.

What I'm saying is that you'll simply have more troops in tele-operation missions than before. This is certainly a bit less dire than doomsday predictions of enslavement to our robotic masters :-D. Actually it is a wonderful development because anything that takes troops out of harms way is good, and anything that ends a war faster because better tools are used is good.

I also have a problem with the view that there is an “us” and “them”, as computer enhanced individuals will probably be appearing before robots have full autonomy.