They're not ideologically against autonomous weapons systems.

Exactly. Which should have you condemning their warmonger ambitions, if you had moral consistency.

so that in the future these systems might become safe and trustworthy enough to use.

Which becomes true to them as soon as it doesn't kill Americans.

It's okay, you can just say you endorse America building autonomous weapons to wipe out people of any nationality. You can acknowledge that doing this is a Green Line according to Warmonger Dario Amodei. I support you coming out of that closet.