San Francisco considers allowing law enforcement robots to use lethal force
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#2reminds me of robocop movie "you have 30 seconds to comply."
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#3Wouldn't it be more helpful to have robots scooping up [stuff] from the sidewalks and sanitizing things?
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#4> The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy.
Since these "robots" are not autonomous, you can substitute "guns" for "robots" in the above sentence. The sentence remains true but becomes banal.
The big ethical difference is that the remote trigger puller can no longer justify the act by a threat to their own life, only to other lives.
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#5Wouldn't it be more helpful to have robots scooping up [stuff] from the sidewalks and sanitizing things?
In Singapore maybe .. this is America! If there's anything we're good at domestically, it's using lethal police force.
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#6Isn’t the entire point of officers being allowed to use lethal force that their lives are in danger?
Killing people remotely when you are completely safe just seems like straight up murder.
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#7Isn’t the entire point of officers being allowed to use lethal force that their lives are in danger? Killing people remotely when you are completely safe just seems like straight up murder.
Or in the defense of another. It wouldn’t make sense for a robot to take a life to save its own, but it might make sense for it to take a life to save your mother’s.
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#8Isn’t the entire point of officers being allowed to use lethal force that their lives are in danger? Killing people remotely when you are completely safe just seems like straight up murder.
Or someone else's life is at risk.
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#9It makes sense since most police departments are short staffed and things will only get worse in the future
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#10San Francisco is weird. My wife and I enjoyed our visit last month where we sat at an outdoor cafe and watched people stealing bikes and furniture (yes, seriously).
I am going to be less entertained by watching murder robots wandering the streets, so perhaps I will eat elsewhere next time.