Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
by jimlongton on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:41AM
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Police have already used a bomb disposal robot to kill a person [1] in the US.
The conversation they had shows slippery slope in action:
> After a brief silence, Commissioner Jesse Hsieh asked the next question: “Does the department plan on using a live round in the robot PAN disruptor?”
> The answer was immediately provocative. “No,” Daza-Quiroz said, before quickly pivoting to hypothetical scenarios in which, yes, just such a shotgun-armed robot might be useful to police.
The conversation they had shows slippery slope in action:
> After a brief silence, Commissioner Jesse Hsieh asked the next question: “Does the department plan on using a live round in the robot PAN disruptor?”
> The answer was immediately provocative. “No,” Daza-Quiroz said, before quickly pivoting to hypothetical scenarios in which, yes, just such a shotgun-armed robot might be useful to police.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...