This reminds me of the CHiPs episode "Bright Flashes", where robbers temporarily blind patrons and staff so that they can rob stores. It's from 1982, when lase

This reminds me of the CHiPs episode "Bright Flashes", where robbers temporarily blind patrons and staff so that they can rob stores. It's from 1982, when lasers were the hot new thing and imaginations ran wild. To my knowledge, it never became a thing, because why would it? Similarly, why would you want to target an individual with an AI laser weapon to blind them? To kill them, sure, like the Israeli assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but not to blind them.