San Francisco Police Department clarified that it would not seek to arm any of its robots with firearms but rather with explosives as an "intermediate force option" that could prove to be lethal.
Lmao, I was naïve enough to think this wasn’t really gonna happen, and the libs weren’t gonna go and endorse dollar store Robocop, but :yea:
Dean Preston remains a tiny dot of light in California politics:
"We’re talking about a sniper in a fully occupied hotel, and the solution... would be to put a bomb-bearing robot to blow up that hotel?" Preston asked about the Vegas scenario. Of the suicide bomber, he asked, “We’re going to use a robot with a bomb to subdue a suicide bomber?”
Just amazing to think the levels of violence that are going to be unleashed on poor people in the next 20 years.
no knock robot assassin coming down your chimmney at the wrong address
Wasn't this literally the origin story for Robot Santa? Now it's just waiting for the AI to realise that everybody should be on the naughty list (except Zoidberg).
the only thing that can fight a suicide bomber is another suicide bomber
Ah yes the 'intermediate' step after bullets is obviously explosives. What's the step beyond that? Tiny nukes?
The less-than-lethal stabbing robot. It's less than lethal because it has to stab you like six times before it gets a good spot to really get you bleeding.
The final language, after Peksin's amendment, reads, "Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and officers cannot subdue the threat after using alternative force options or de-escalation tactics options, or conclude that they will not be able to subdue the threat after evaluating alternative force options or de-escalation tactics. Only the Chief of Police, Assistant Chief, or Deputy Chief of Special Operations may authorize the use of robot deadly force options."
Ha, yeah. No way officers will abuse the language in this to just do what they do best:what-the-hell:
Even the wording of this is just so much tac-speak for "we will use this whenever we get scared and don't want to deal with something."
They're gonna use this at some mass shooting and end up killing more innocents than the shooter
They are going to wait until the shooting stops and then send in the drone to double-tap any survivors inside the kindergarten.
Cops overwhelmingly favor excessive force, they're trained to be actively terrified of the populace around them. So...
Damn, why aren’t police unions fighting against automation? Every time someone threatens my job with automation I’m like “damn I wish I had a union”
They'll fight against automation as soon as police face budget cuts. So, never
Exactly, they just get to keep their jobs and play with new robot bomb toys
Well as long as a human player is using them we can at least know they'll miss on consecutive 90% hits
It can’t even be denied now that all cops are huge cowards and will never put themselves in harms way to protect the public. Which is the reason they’ve been telling us they need to exist for the last century.
All cops do is loot the commons so they can roll around the place in armoured personnel carriers like they are patrolling Fallujah circa 2004 and LARP as their favorite Call of Duty characters.
Defund the Police. Death to America.
This is the first time I've honestly considered that I may have to fight a robot at some point and it probably shouldn't have taken me this long.
Who would win?
$35,000,000 police super robot made with millions of manhours of highly specialized, professional scientists using the absolute peak of technological development
OR
half a cup of dirt in your pocket, value negligible, available in almost any place on earth
The efficacy of the tactical advantage provided by Pocket Sand continues to prove itself in real-world combat situations
It's very funny to me that you can kill one of these things with a jar of pickles
Listen, it's fine. Given the current level of technology, these can probably be disabled with a quick time event. However, as they unlock higher tiers of combat droids, we cannot discount the possibility of a race-against-the-clock hacking minigame in the future.
:ooooooooooooooh: anything but more hacking mini games, I'll take the suicide bomb bots, but please no more hacking minigames
I personally am holding out hope it will be the one from Prey because I liked that little chugging synth music track they had with it
If a high explosive suicide robot capable of leveling a building is "intermediate" force, I can only assume that the maximum force model will come with some kind of orbital beam targeter.
San Francisco duking it out with Miami for title rights for "Worst city on earth"
