After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/San-Francisco-approves-lethal-robots-17619556.php

by chillbill • 4 years ago

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badrabbit3• 4 years ago

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!).

chillbill2• 4 years ago

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.

badrabbit3• 4 years ago

It could and would get hacked but would it be as often as cops injure and kill people today?

kupopuffs• 4 years ago

Humans are messy and hard to change

Robots can be continuously iterated on.

Which can be kind of scary

badrabbit3• 4 years ago

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.

bearmode• 4 years ago

These aren't autonomous - they require a human controller

coorski• 4 years ago

can robots be dosed with illegal / legal substances? whammy ?!?

nunez• 4 years ago

Did they really not watch RoboCop?!

yucky• 4 years ago

The argument for this is that it removes the argument of "cops life in danger" which they think will reduce or eliminate shootings of unarmed suspects.

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.

After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots

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