According to this article, the Pentagon is working on developing autonomous systems with morals/ethics.

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The Office of Naval Research will award $7.5 million in grant money over five years to university researchers from Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brown, Yale and Georgetown to explore how to build a sense of right and wrong and moral consequence into autonomous robotic systems.

Uh, and who's morals are we going to pattern this program on exactly? The same types of people calling the shots now?