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San Francisco Police want to arm robots for use against the public. You can help stop them. http://eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/let-them-know-san-francisco-shouldnt-arm-robots
Let Them Know: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 29 voted 8 to 3 to approve on first reading a policy that would formally authorize the San Francisco Police Department to deploy deadly force via remote-controlled robots. The majority fell down the rabbit hole of security theater: doing anything to...

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Dec 3, 2022 at 6:49pmWeb
Show threadTor LindströmDec 3, 2022
@eff Send them to Ukraine and use them against the russians instead? 😀
Show threadPaul MisnerDec 3, 2022
@eff Asimov's 3 laws of robotics never stood a chance against the military industrial complex.
Show threadMark KruegerDec 3, 2022

@eff Just sent my supervisor an email asking her to vote no. I can’t believe this is my city doing this. We actually have a pretty decent track record of not approving surveillance technology and such here in SF. This situation completely caught me off guard. There is no way this would pass a vote of tech savvy SF constituents.

Insanity. Killer robots in SF. Ugh.

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