Since soldiers are agents of morality, their actions can therefore be attributed for, and held responsible for failing. Since AUAAVs are not basing their attacks on moral grounds, we are presented with many legal IT issues on liability and responsibility in case an accident, e.g. if child's death occurs.
Since Armed Unmanned Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AUAAVs) are incapable of making decisions based on moral responsibility, we must therefore decide who is legally responsible and liable in the case that such an incidence occurs. Although it might be the AUAAV that performs the act which leads to the harm caused, it will be the category of people involved with its creation, design, manufacture and usage who will be held responsible for the act. These categories of people can include software programmers, manufacturers, military commanders and politicians. If the AUAAV malfunctions, for some reason, during an operation and hurts an innocent civilian, such as a child, the software programmer or the manufacturer might be held responsible and liable for negligence. If the malfunction occurs due to a wrong algorithm entered to the program, then the programmer will be held liable for this. The manufacturer or the programmer might also be liable if they failed to prevent any known risks presented by the machine, such as misfiring or failing to properly program a system which cannot identify a compatible person (no comma) from a civilian. Therefore the programmers and manufacturers must be very careful to create a machine that will not malfunction and cause any unwanted damage, because the responsibility could be placed on them. That being said, since an AUAAV has the ability to learn over time and also autonomously make its own decisions, certain learned actions by the AUAAV cannot be blamed on the programmers of the machine. If the machine carries out an autonomous action which was carried out using that which has been learnt by the machine over time, then the programmer cannot be held responsible for the act committed, as the he would not have control over the whole(?) system at that point.