It’s smart enough to fly a drone and return it to base for a recharge.

It's not.

These tools are consistently just proxies for cheap overseas manual labor. AI is consistently augmented by mirrored human actions and often just a fascade - a juiced up mechanical turk.

WAY more worried that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

If Lavendar AI is any indication of how these tools will be used, they are far more often employed as propaganda - whitewashing war crimes by generating fake accusations of imminent danger and intelligence data.

You'll still be killed by a human. Maybe a manual operator. Maybe a human guided missile. Maybe just some asshole with a gun.

The AI will then fabricate the reason for your murder and feed it to the bureaucracy that helps pacify anyone who might object to your death.

that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

Or that they'll just be lazy and sloppy.

In movies you used to sometimes see someone put a brick on a car's gas pedal so they could send it through a wall, or into a lake, or whatever. In a comedy, you sometimes used to see someone rig up something so that their car could drive while they slept.

Running AI "agents" is basically like opening up some application that has a lot of keyboard shortcuts to run various scripts and then putting a brick on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, we're now at a stage where some people think that's a good idea. The machines aren't capable of thought, they have no desires or goals. But, if some of those scripts instruct a drone to go out and kill someone, the brick on the keyboard can get someone killed.