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If they were ever deployed as auxiliaries to law enforcement, my hope would be any weapon would have to have a human approve a request. Robots should be able t
by mc32 5y ago
If they were ever deployed as auxiliaries to law enforcement, my hope would be any weapon would have to have a human approve a request.
Robots should be able to swarm and restrain uncooperative suspects so there should be less need for lethality unless the perpetrator is an active threat against other people -a hostage situation, mass shooting, etc.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoRobots will be the new zip ties to restrain you while your rights are violated. It’s not a tech failure though, it’s a governance and accountability failure.
- mc32 5y agoDo do we want more uniform enforcement via robot, or do we want more leeway for human LEOs? It used to be cops could make their own decisions on the spot about a subject (good or bad), now with cameras there is much much less ad-hoc decision making. Everyone gets booked. It’s a double edged sword. Depends on what we want.
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- tehwebguy 5y agoNeither! Human LEOs in the US need to have fewer weapons and more accountability, they are currently virtually un-prosecutable. Even when cops commit a crime on camera it is extremely rare for them to be indicted.
- sangnoir 5y ago> Do do we want more uniform enforcement via robot, or do we want more leeway for human LEOs? Or, do you want more enforcement, period. Automation can scale a lot more than human LEO - and since everyone breaks some law pretty much daily, that limitation is a feature in my book. Didn't turn on your blinkers for long enough before switching lanes on a deserted street (by 0.2 seconds)? Jailerbot 2000 deactivates your car, detains you and sends you to the fully automated jail below the city until the judge sees you on Monday.
- wonderwonder 5y agohonestly I would prefer a robot goes in and restrains the people the police want vs a crowd of hopped up armed officers.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoArming law enforcement robots must be illegal- the whole point is that you can risk the robot to restrain a suspect, it doesn't need to defent itself like a police officer does.
- mc32 5y agoIt would be useful in circumstances they might work best. Hostage situation, mass shootings. We don’t want to have to wait till a human LEO shows up to incapacitate the perp.
- ryandvm 5y agoYou're not wrong, but those circumstances are so exceedingly rare that activating an armed robot should require a warrant or some other way of rate-limiting their invocation.
- tehwebguy 5y agoProbably all of our current policing problems come down to officer emotions & decision making so I'm neither pro-autonomous robot cop nor pro-robot cop as a police controlled tool