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Isn't this just a remotely controlled gun? If we'd be talking about AI making its own decisions that's a different thing. In addition to this I feel better decisions would be made when the person holding the gun isn't threatened by his or her life.
Isn't this just a remotely controlled gun? If we'd be talking about AI making its own decisions that's a different thing. In addition to this I feel better decisions would be made when the person holding the gun isn't threatened by his or her life.
Maybe I lack imagination, but it seems like if you have enough control over a situation that you can deploy a police robot instead of charging in, then you have enough control to make non-lethal force a viable option.
Isn't this just a remotely controlled gun? If we'd be talking about AI making its own decisions that's a different thing. In addition to this I feel better decisions would be made when the person holding the gun isn't threatened by his or her life.
The question is: do we want to allow this? Without going all slippery slope on this debate, I don't think we've had time to think through the consequences of a precision remote-controlled gun. Of course, they didn't give us a say on selling military weaponry to police departments, so I don't think we'll have much to say in this either.
Surprisingly, there is already precedent for this in US policing. All the way back in 2016, a gunman in Dallas was killed by police using a bomb defusal robot with remote-control explosives attached to it:
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/08/use-robot-kill-dalla...
Isn't this just a remotely controlled gun? If we'd be talking about AI making its own decisions that's a different thing. In addition to this I feel better decisions would be made when the person holding the gun isn't threatened by his or her life.
Cops in america already shoot way too many people. Do you think giving them the ability to do that from a remote location is going to help?
How are guns not robots?
Isn't this just a remotely controlled gun? If we'd be talking about AI making its own decisions that's a different thing. In addition to this I feel better decisions would be made when the person holding the gun isn't threatened by his or her life.
Cops in america already shoot way too many people. Do you think giving them the ability to do that from a remote location is going to help?
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> Why does anyone or anything need to “go in”? There are plenty of other ways to deal with these situations instead of pretending to be Seal Team Six.
Such as? Like a large magnet to pull the guns out of their hand?
Sometimes these situations will only result in shootouts, like busting a drug operation of a gang.
Then you have to go in to protect other citizens. Sending in a robot would then be safer. And it's been done before.
> Working on having less guns would be a start. In terms of "less lethal" pepper spray is usually pretty good
Sure, but that's not today, gangs currently have guns. Drug busts currently have dangers.
(note I don't agree that guns are the problem, if anything everyone should be armed)