This is just another science fiction fantasy, and it’s been around for years. The reality is that even simple organisms often have hundreds of millions of years of natural selection evolution backing them up.
And not just individually, but collectively.
Yes, people can design machines that can kill, and quite effectively. But this is no different from them using simple tools to kill. It is still “all them” doing the killing.
Imagine Obama claiming credit for a drone zap. It’s not really the drone, or the munition it drops that is doing the killing. And no, it isn’t Obama either. It is some guy in Utah directing the drone in Pakistan. As well as the guys in Afghanistan who maintain it, and the people back in the US that make it.
Arthur C. Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
I would add the axiom: “But ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ applies to magic as well.”
I’m stealing that.