The moral Question?
This depends from what religion or culture that you come from outside that of Christianity and that is why many nations are allowing for research into genetically modified humans as being more suitable than robots on the battlefield and eventually space exploration!
Bur today A.I. is being used in medicine, the nuclear industry and the military, with success, but also serious flawed failures as seen recently in the Middle-East, while the same flaw was ignored in Afghanistan by ISAF?
It would seem in the light of what we have learned so far the high moral ground is being ignored and that for financial gain rather than the cost or the value of human life!
Jeremiah 2:22, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Jude 1:23.