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What happens when you fake danger to get robots to murder people for you. Or when the robot has “bugs” that kill demographics you don’t like more often.

This is a horrifically terrible idea.

It is imperative that a human always be a decision maker about lethal force so proper judgement can be made and someone can be held accountable if it is made badly.

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I don't know why people are downvoting this. Where I live the police union boss was a known white supremacist for a decade. The police department was known to have members who tallied their kill counts competitively. For dogs and for people.

We have serious problems with accountability of law enforcement in the US.

i not sure if this completely applies here but i think police forces should not be allowed to hire ex military into general beat cops. goon squad yes, but the headset of a soldier, and the headset of a cop are very different philosophies, though both have crept close together in the years.

The article is about remote controlled robots, not AI. (If I understand correctly.)

swatting, but with drones now.

You are not the only person to think of this. Obviously this is a huge reason we don’t have police drones yet.

> What happens when you fake danger

So what, you go up to a bank, with a fake gun, and then say "lul, I was just robbing you as a prank bro?"

Probably the same thing will happen to you, as would happen to you right now, if you pointed a fake gun at someone.

In the case of the bank, or the fake gun, the prankster might get shot. In the case of the robot, the pranked person might be shot. Doesn’t quite seem the same.

No actually, the pranker would get shot in both cases.

The person pointing a fake gun at someone, would be the one shot either way, even if a robot did the shooting.

I don’t think you understand what GP meant. They meant faking you (as the prankster) being in danger, so the robot kills someone else (the prankee) for you.

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