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Agreed, this isn't a robot used for intimidation or as a police-presence replacement, its used in the same way a disease-resistant social-worker would have been
by genericone 5y ago
Agreed, this isn't a robot used for intimidation or as a police-presence replacement, its used in the same way a disease-resistant social-worker would have been used, if such a person exists.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoThey do exist now.
- MattGaiser 5y agoWait until someone argues that they need to not be disease resistant to have empathy.
- DanAtC 5y ago> isn't a robot used for intimidation or as a police-presence replacement Not _yet_
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoI don't trust the police either, but a two-foot-tall mobile camera with a top speed of less than 4MPH is not a slippery slope to sinister murderbots, any more than letting police drive cars is a slippery slope to them buying giant spiked steamrollers to crush homeless people with.
- FireBeyond 5y agoAnd at least the AUP prohibits "weaponization of the robot", so we should all be safe. Either that, or departments have already asked for that, hence why it is called out.