Skynet Alert - War Is Already Autonomous

Somewhere in a darkened room, a screen glows with the soft pulse of a hundred icons — each one a drone, a vehicle, a sensor node — moving in coordinated patterns across a map that spans continents. The operator is gone. Has been for hours. The system detected the anomaly, calculated the response, dispatched the assets, and is now logging the outcome for a human review that may come tomorrow or may never come at all. This is not science fiction. It is not even the future, really. It is 202...