After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots(sfgate.com)
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After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/San-Francisco-approves-lethal-robots-17619556.php
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Strangely, I prefer to be shot by a robot than a human cop. Either I had it coming or it was purely an accident. Either way, robots don't get qualified immunity and for some reason it feels less personal, perhaps because robots can't have malicious intent (yet!).
Yep, that’s strange.
The robot could also get hacked by a rouge (or not so rouge) agent attempting to kill you or someone else? At this point, and if these flying bombing robots actually start going around, I’m absolutely certain it will happen.
The robot could also get hacked by a rouge (or not so rouge) agent attempting to kill you or someone else? At this point, and if these flying bombing robots actually start going around, I’m absolutely certain it will happen.
Humans are messy and hard to change
Robots can be continuously iterated on.
Which can be kind of scary
Robots can be continuously iterated on.
Which can be kind of scary
I use to think so but noe I think unpredictable and cruel humans are scarier. You can debug/troubleshoot a machine but people's free will and complexity makes them dangerous.
If a robot sues me, I can sue its operator. If a person shoots me, they can claim an accident, self-defence,qualified immunity,etc... so robot operators have a good incentive to be right when they fire.
The scary part isn't the bots but who controls them.
If a robot sues me, I can sue its operator. If a person shoots me, they can claim an accident, self-defence,qualified immunity,etc... so robot operators have a good incentive to be right when they fire.
The scary part isn't the bots but who controls them.
These aren't autonomous - they require a human controller
SwSwinger(3)
can robots be dosed with illegal / legal substances? whammy ?!?
Did they really not watch RoboCop?!
There are several arguments against this, but the one that concerns me most is that this turns police encounters into a video game which will dehumanize the people on the other end.