When decisions result in errors and civilian casualties, we find that the public assigns substantially less blame to human soldiers when using partially or fully autonomous drones. This implies the use of AWS may allow human officials to avoid necessary accountability for their decisions. 🧵(5/8)

Yet, in the wake of an error resulting in civilian casualties, the public views the use of drone strikes far more critically when the error was made by an AWS rather than a human operator, leading to a larger erosion in support for future military operations. 🧵(6/8)