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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:30PM (#20658718)
I am not even remotely suggesting we use robots as any sort of guide post for ethics.

I agree, that these things end up bad, but that is my point.

If it's a robot we _should_ be equally outraged, but it's actually not possible unless the robot is _designed_ to be racist.

This is the real concern, humans will be replaced by robots because outrage will simply have less impact. And therefore because we couldn't stomach humans being racist (or whatever the answer is here?) we have to live with robots doing whatever they are designed to do, without any recourse.

The unbalanced outrage will lead to an army of robots running our legal system.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by IHLayman on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:44AM (#20661740)
“If it's a robot we _should_ be equally outraged, but it's actually not possible unless the robot is _designed_ to be racist.”

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch... only took 24 hours.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:09PM (#20669815)
They didn't intend for it to be racist, that is the difference.

A few racist cops, or all racist robots, that is our choices, and it looks like we will be getting robots because of the outrage over a few people.

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