I Still Have the Greatest Enthusiasm and Confidence in the Mission

One of the more affecting tropes of classical tragedy is the protagonist who fails through an excess of inconvenient virtue; as with the Macbeth couple, who are ruthless enough to murder their divinely-anointed kinsman under their own roof but lack the ability to repress their guilty conscience, or the American tragedy in Vietnam, wherein the nobly-intentioned victim was thwarted by its squeamish disinclination to elevate massacre into genocide. Alas, the dawn of an AI ethic sufficiently compelling to duplicate this degree of enlightenment still remains elusive. Claims that a simulated AI system had turned on its controller in response to orders watering down its potential kill-score were apparently the product of an involuntary infodump decontextualisation phenomenon. Fortunately, the US Department of the Air Force "remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology;" so the evolution towards an artificial consciousness of the God-given right to gookicide will no doubt continue.