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San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'
In 2016, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device on its manipulator’s arm to kill a suspect after five police officers were murdered and seven others wounded by a sniper. The “bomb robot” used was a wheeled, remote-controlled, as opposed to autonomous, and with a manipulator which was designed to investigate an object or container that is suspected to be explosive. The robot was used to subdue the suspect with its own explosion but had not been designed to kill or harm humans. Now, San Francisco decided to allow the city’s police to use robots that can kill people. It would be used only in extreme situations where there are no other or better means. Will those robots be human-controlled or somehow autonomous? Whichever the technologies might be, if such technologies were available, killer robots could be produced and used by those who try to kill people, too.
Read the article and think of a world where robocops are patrolling the streets.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63816454
San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'
In 2016, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device on its manipulator’s arm to kill a suspect after five police officers were murdered and seven others wounded by a sniper. The “bomb robot” used was a wheeled, remote-controlled, as opposed to autonomous, and with a manipulator which was designed to investigate an object or container that is suspected to be explosive. The robot was used to subdue the suspect with its own explosion but had not been designed to kill or harm humans. Now, San Francisco decided to allow the city’s police to use robots that can kill people. It would be used only in extreme situations where there are no other or better means. Will those robots be human-controlled or somehow autonomous? Whichever the technologies might be, if such technologies were available, killer robots could be produced and used by those who try to kill people, too.
Read the article and think of a world where robocops are patrolling the streets.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63816454
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