Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns 219
foniksonik writes "'On 28 June, Taser International of Arizona announced plans to equip robots with stun guns ... the new stun-capable robots could be used against civilians.' Non-lethal weapons experts are concerned that the robots will have to stun the suspected criminal for longer periods of time while awaiting human police to come make the official arrest. "If someone is severely punished by an autonomous robot, who are you going to take to a tribunal?" asks Steve Wright, a security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK."
Wellllll... (Score:5, Funny)
Why wont people stop..... (Score:2, Funny)
On the next episode of "brilliant fucking ideas" (Score:5, Funny)
Diminishing Returns (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wellllll... (Score:5, Funny)
"I'll be back... for the appeal."
Re:The person operating it (Score:3, Funny)
Civilian uses ? (Score:3, Funny)
If you're not doing anything wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh... wait...
Who gets to read the source code? (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia buggy robot source code stuns you.
Re:Easy... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ED209 says ... (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why wont people stop..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My Question for Humanity (Score:3, Funny)
I think it can be summarised like this:
- Current AIs are not clever enough to be in charge of weapons, because they aren't capable of understanding when they should be used.
- Science fiction AIs are too clever to be in charge of weapons, because they always use them to take over the world.
On the whole, it sounds like a really really bad idea to give an AI a gun, no matter how smart the AI might be.
This is why we don't need robots... (Score:1, Funny)