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>> It's the last job you want to automate with "AI". Have you been at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France? The security people there look like paratroopers
by dsign 3y ago
>> It's the last job you want to automate with "AI".
Have you been at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France? The security people there look like paratroopers[^1]. It's terrifying, and it's a reason I avoid that particular airport every time I fly. It sends the message "Paris is an unsafe place to be, we are very paranoid, blame the others, don't come here." The machine guns have no business among civilians, being with robots or people, period.
>> That is a job which is 99.99% about understanding human intentions in confusing and ambiguous situations, and where making a mistake will literally kill people.
Yes, if you ever are allowed to pull the trigger. And in that case, I wouldn't trust machine nor person; I have been profiled on the basis of my physical appearance more times that I can count.
But in some cases, like the airport above, the goal and effect is to simply terrify civilians. You can't deny that a machine would do a better job at that[^2].
[^1]: Just search Google images for "Security at Charles de Gaulle airport." I've been there, and that's exactly how they look.
[^2]: Here, have a Dalek with a white paint job: https://www.knightscope.com/ https://www.knightscope.com/ .
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThe police look like that in Paris’s suburbs as well, for I guess obvious reasons.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoI'm an order of magnitude more afraid of a regular cop back in America than any police in Europe.
- dontupvoteme 3y ago>Have you been at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France? The security people there look like paratroopers[^1]. It's terrifying, and it's a reason I avoid that particular airport every time I fly. It sends the message "Paris is an unsafe place to be, we are very paranoid, blame the others, don't come here." The machine guns have no business among civilians, being with robots or people, period. In europe there's 1-2 orders of less police brutality and issues overall, but the tradeoff is you randomly have military police walking around with rifles. They're quite friendly actually, I've ended up getting directions from them once or twice when trying to catch a connection. Also the FAMAS is a beautiful piece of French Engineering What does suck about CDG is how horrifically unorganized they are. Like "print your boarding pass, but the printer was out of ink, so the barcode didn't generate, and they just *wave you through* the check with an invalid boarding pass because it happens all the time that is what scares me, not European cops with guns
- throwbadubadu 3y ago> In europe there's 1-2 orders of less police brutality and issues overall, but the tradeoff is you randomly have military police walking around with rifles I doubt any relation of these two facts, or cannot see it.
- tsimionescu 3y agoA bit ironic to talk about how ok it is to have police with guns in France given the enormous portests still underway caused by a policeman with a gun...
- sangnoir 3y ago> France given the enormous portests still underway... Protest is part of French tradition
- JohnFen 3y ago> They're quite friendly actually, I've ended up getting directions from them once or twice when trying to catch a connection. You're a braver person than I. I cannot imagine a circumstance where I'd be willing to even approach officers armed with machine guns, let alone ask them for anything. I'd just be itching to get out of that place ASAP.
- A_non_e-moose 3y agoI actually feel quite safe knowing that someone with more rigorous military training than police training, and with more familiarity with their service weapon, is ready to act in case of a bomb, knife or vehicle attack.
- brightlancer 3y agoI think you're over-estimating the quality of military firearms training and under-estimating how soldiers and marines are trained for war rather than policing. Friendly-fire military incidents are common; while it's associated with inexperienced troops, the reality is that experienced and "elite" troops still have many friendly-fire incidents. And then there are all the civilians that are killed as collateral damage.
- Swannie 3y agoIn the UK, police don't generally carry guns. Of those that do, firearms officers - why would they carry a handgun? And you are right - there is of course an element of security theatre!