San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’

Obligatory YouTube video https://youtu.be/0rliFQ0qyAM

It seems like it is remotely controlled by human

Cool

Afterwards, maybe

As long as it's remotely controlled, it's not a bad idea. Why should policemen risk their lives when confronting dangerous criminals?

I see two potential problems though: 1) security, 2) sooner or later - in 20 or 50 years - someone will have the brilliant idea of making one of those "autonomous". This would be the beginning of a long nightmare.

Imagine a terrorist cell, which has no leader, no members, no financiers but is able to attack anyway.

A DAO hires gig workers to assemble a "product" in a property which it has rented, the product is then programed by the DAO to attack the city it resides in. The DAO having speculated on shares of competitors of companies within the city, moves ever onwards. Terrorism as a software glider gun.

Its a major theme in my game, any exponential tech advances handed to citizens, become a minority vote mechanism on society. The implications being, that freedom and exponential toys bump into a hard roof, were any clever crank can empty exponential weapons down the hallway. But society as we know it also can not continue without exponentials tapped. A rock and a hard place.