Posted on 07/11/2016 6:05:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
As military-grade robotics get cheaper and more capable, someone will arm them and put them on American streets.
Robot-maker Sean Bielat says he’s fine with the Dallas Police Department’s apparently unprecedented use of a bomb-disposal robot to kill a gunman on Thursday. “A robot was used to keep people out of harm’s way in an extreme situation,” said Bielat, the CEO of Endeavor Robotics, a spinoff of iRobot’s military division. “That’s how robots are intended to be used.”
Joergen Pedersen, the CEO of RE2 robotics and the chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association’s robotics division concurred. “If these robots are used in manners for which they were unintended, we would expect that the officers who are there to keep citizens and themselves safe would use good judgment where the application of lethal force is a last resort,” he said.
On Sunday, speaking to Face the Nation, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings blessed the operation. “The chief had two options and he went with this one. I supported him completely because it was the safest way to approach it,” he said.
But some ethicists are worried.
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My question...
If a robot detonates a bomb in the woods, is there a “boom”?
I’ll buy that for a dollar.
Ironically, the original RoboCop was filmed in Dallas.
How about Kamikaze Drones
“I doubt you’ll see this tactic become frequently used.”
I agree because it is unconstitutional. I’m sorry, but I don’t want the police becoming judge, jury, and executioner.
DUE PROCESS. Even scumbag muzzy cop murderers are entitled, (yes, ENTITLED) to due process.
“fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen’s entitlement.”
” The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be “deprived of LIFE, liberty or property without due process of law.”
“The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words (deprive (any person) of LIFE, liberty, or property, without due process of law), called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states. These words have as their central promise an assurance that all levels of American government must operate within the law”
I’m glad he’s dead, but we can’t just go around executing people without a trial. Talk about your “slippery slope”!
He was contained, wounded, and not going anywhere. All they had to do was wait. With time, he very likely would have surrendered or passed out or died.
No need to execute him, until AFTER his trial.
Just remember, the guy in Dallas didn’t have any hostages.
I don’t trust robots in a hostage situation.
I think the cops waited way to long in the Orlando situation. We still don’t know the entire story there.
Robocop.
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