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San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
Associated Press ^ | November 29, 2022 | Janie Har

Posted on 11/29/2022 8:39:30 PM PST by Olog-hai

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21 posted on 11/29/2022 9:16:36 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: MarMema

And more importantly, the robot will get home safely.


22 posted on 11/29/2022 9:18:32 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Olog-hai

3 dirtbag deaths and $150 MM in settlement money later, they will move quickly to spend $30-$40MM MM on some robot social workers.


23 posted on 11/29/2022 9:30:57 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Right Brother

Yes. A good point.

I was speeding badly in the early am hours in Traverse City, MI a few months ago. I was late, had gotten lost, my phone went crazy on gps, and working at a dogshow. There was no traffic out there but me on a wide six lanes road.

I was pulled over by three police cars. The guy who came to the window had two cops backing him, one on each side, and the woman had her hand on her gun, still holstered but tightly grasped.

I looked at them and the first thing I said was “Wow, I am not going to hurt you”.

And it all ended well. In fact they forgave me and gave me directions. No ticket.

I told several people about it at the show and they thought the police were looking for someone that day.
But it really made me think about their daily activities.


24 posted on 11/29/2022 9:38:23 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Olog-hai

Funny thing is, you can’t even get the actual cops to shoot
looters.

Who here actually thinks some robot is going to be given
the signal to kill a human?

Sorry, that’s too much of a stretch for me.


25 posted on 11/29/2022 10:02:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: redcatcherb412
Contact explosives to incapacitate hmm? Like a flashbang in their shorts maybe? Most contact explosives are cannon or grenades

In 2016 police in Dallas used a robot to kill a suspect in the murder of 5 police officers. At that point, few people had even considered LE using robots to kill people. In reality, I suspect there are many police forces around the country with this capability. The problem is in how they use this technology, particularly as AI becomes more widespread.

26 posted on 11/29/2022 10:19:26 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: DoughtyOne

‘Who here actually thinks some robot is going to be given
the signal to kill a human?”

“Sorry, that’s too much of a stretch for me.”

~~~~~~~

The fraudulently elected supervisors that loved the idea and voted for this
madness, that’s who.


27 posted on 11/29/2022 10:59:29 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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To: Olog-hai
DEFUND SKYNET!

Regards,

28 posted on 11/29/2022 11:09:35 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: No name given

Fahrenheit 451.

There are lots of dystopian novels that deal with this concept, and none of them are scenarios I would want to live in.


29 posted on 11/30/2022 12:36:39 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: DoughtyOne

Who here actually thinks some robot is going to be given the signal to kill a human?
I do, and it’ll be by the same kind of people who exonerated Michael Leroy Byrd for murdering Ashli Babbitt.
30 posted on 11/30/2022 12:48:08 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Another reason to stay out of SF, not that I needed another.


31 posted on 11/30/2022 4:09:10 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m guessing the robots wouldn’t autonomously shoot but rather a person would aim and fire the robot’s weapon.


32 posted on 11/30/2022 4:57:59 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Olog-hai

So now I can have lethal, remote-controlled robots to defend my home. COOL !!


33 posted on 11/30/2022 5:27:10 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Olog-hai

“The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has ‘no plans to arm robots with guns’.”

Does anyone believe this crap?


34 posted on 11/30/2022 7:42:16 AM PST by dljordan (Ban 'And so it begins' on FR.)
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To: dljordan

No more than their story with respect to Paul Pelosi.


35 posted on 11/30/2022 8:29:53 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

“You have 20 seconds to comply.”


36 posted on 11/30/2022 9:38:48 AM PST by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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To: No name given

ROBOCOP Also!


37 posted on 11/30/2022 11:46:33 AM PST by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: EasySt

He won’t even give the order to humans.


38 posted on 11/30/2022 8:10:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Olog-hai

Right now we allow riots, looting, arson, killings, walk-in
theft by the bag or cart full...

Nothing at all!

They aren’t planning on killing anyone unless it’s you and Me
over a text.


39 posted on 11/30/2022 8:12:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The last sentence.


40 posted on 11/30/2022 9:26:29 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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