Posted on 11/30/2022 8:34:39 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
San Francisco leaders voted to allow the city’s police department to use potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
"Under this policy, SFPD is authorized to use these robots to carry out deadly force in extremely limited situations when risk to loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available," City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman wrote on Twitter.
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Is the robot just camera equipped and remote controlled with the human controller having a “fire” button he can push or does it make its own attack decisions using AI? Big difference.
Reminds me of the scene in Maximum Overdrive of a paranormally possessed M274 military mule with what looked like a tripod mounted German machine gun.
Let me guess: They’ll be programmed to exterminate anyone wearing a MAGA hat in public, has a sign on his lawn for the Republican candidate, used a banned word in the past 40 years or criticizes the current regime.
Druggies are a protected class in San Francisco.
They are allowed to shoot up in public, take over city parks tossing used needles all over the place, camp out and block sidewalks, defecate wherever they want, and aggressively panhandle in front of businesses.
The robots will be programmed to go after the regime’s enemies: Republicans.
Oooh, I want to do the programming for the robots . . .
Remember Covid is an emergency.
Add “using an inappropriate pronoun” to your list
Pretty soon every situation will be an emergency situation
how much ya wanna bet they will only be used against white conservatives?
LOL
Extremely limited situations aren’t going to be extremely limited for very long; somebody is going to find a way to justify the usage of these things in a broader range of situations.
I had one of those as a kid.
“And you don’t have to send that robot to jail.”
Just remove it’s battery until it shows remorse
This is morally equivalent to weaponized drones. That ship has already sailed.
The liberals could also use that device to clean up areas like homeless encampments and then after the fact blame the programmers for excessive force incidents.
They will use shotguns and it will be messy.
Robocop.
What happens when the “potentially lethal” police robot meets the drug lord’s ALWAYS lethal robot?
Or my homebrew robot built to destroy police robots?
Could get ta be like the Wild Robotic West out there.
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