The AI doesn't have to be 100% self reliant. It might just do the dirty work while the humans in the background support it in an abstracted form, making it easier for them to lie to themselves about what they are doing.
When your job is to repair and maintain infantry drones, how do you know if it's civilian or combatant blood that you are cleaning from the shell? You never leave the camp because doing so is too dangerous and you also don't know the language anyways. Sure the enemy spreads propaganda that the drones are killing babies but those are most likely just lies...
Or when you are a rocket engineer, there is little difference between your globe spanning satellite network transmitting the position of a hypersonic missile headed for your homeland, or remote controlling a network of drones.
AI gives you a more specialized economy. Instead of every soldier needing to know how to maintain their gun you now have one person responsible for physical maintenance, one person responsible for maintaining the satellite kubernetes network, one UI designer, and one lunatic typing in war crime commands. Everyone in the chain is oblivious of the war crime except for that one person at the end.
When your job is to repair and maintain infantry drones, how do you know if it's civilian or combatant blood that you are cleaning from the shell? You never leave the camp because doing so is too dangerous and you also don't know the language anyways. Sure the enemy spreads propaganda that the drones are killing babies but those are most likely just lies...
Or when you are a rocket engineer, there is little difference between your globe spanning satellite network transmitting the position of a hypersonic missile headed for your homeland, or remote controlling a network of drones.
AI gives you a more specialized economy. Instead of every soldier needing to know how to maintain their gun you now have one person responsible for physical maintenance, one person responsible for maintaining the satellite kubernetes network, one UI designer, and one lunatic typing in war crime commands. Everyone in the chain is oblivious of the war crime except for that one person at the end.