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The chances of a computer system glitching to change target are pretty close to 0%, no matter what movies tell you. It'd probably have glitched into shutdown first.
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It's not about it changing targets, it's about whether it's all that good at differentiating enemy targets from friendly ones.
Like in WWII when the Russians trained dogs by putting food underneath tanks, then put them on to the battlefield with TNT strapped to their backs in the hope that they'd run to the German tanks and explode. Except that the dogs didn't recognise the German tanks and instead turned around and ran towards to the Russian tanks with which they'd been trained.
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Can't put a price on human life.
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You clearly haven't had all that much contact with big business or bureaurocrats. You certainly can put a cost on human life; how much will the lawsuit cost you if things go wrong? Also, how much will it cost you in negative reputation and lost sales? It's worth it to spend up to that amount but no more ensuring that things don't go wrong.