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This is similar but not paywalled either.
Fully-autonomous robots that kill without a human in the loop have been around for quite a while. They just aren't as pervasive or visible as they could be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
That's 1980.
I think that the Soviet analog also can operate without a human in the loop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-630
If so, that's 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
That's 1981.
It's not that it's morally corrupt, it's that it's just way too big risk to set these killing missions to an automated task.
But it's also morally corrupt.