AI ethics and naval advantage

What is the ethical case for using AI in modern naval warfare?

Refusing AI can endanger one's own sailors if opponents retain it; meaningful limits are hard because the technology overlaps with advanced computing and machine learning.

The ethical problem turns on reciprocity: a navy that rejects a useful capability cannot assume an opponent will do likewise. Mutual restraint over chemical and biological weapons in the Second World War provides an analogy for limits that work only when adversaries share them. The boundary between AI, machine learning, and very fast computing is difficult to draw, especially for adaptive weapons and decision support. Unilateral restraint can transfer risk onto one's own sailors unless a credible reciprocal rule governs every side.