Good instinct -- this is absolutely being explored in the academy[1], and IMO it's only a matter of time before Palantir, Anduril, or even Sauron (yes, all real

Good instinct -- this is absolutely being explored in the academy[1], and IMO it's only a matter of time before Palantir, Anduril, or even Sauron (yes, all real companies interested in ideas like this...) start pitching such a product to the government. Besides the arguments I gave above for a firing squad being philosophically superior, it's just clearly way cheaper and way less likely to go wrong, especially if you don't even need to find three prison guards who are ready and able to shoot accurately. [1] Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions—and Why Such Automation Must Be Prevented: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5146574 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5146574