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Source: http://io9.com/5913339/will-armed-drones-be-policing-american-cities
By Annalee Newitz
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Source: http://io9.com/5913339/will-armed-drones-be-policing-american-cities
By Annalee Newitz
May 25, 2012 8:02 AM
Will armed drones be policing American cities?
Could the next wave of Occupy protests be ripped apart by rubber bullets and tear gas launched by remote-controlled robots hovering overhead, steered by police officers miles away? It's not a futurist scenario anymore. According to CBSDC:
The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed several police departments to use drones across the U.S. They are controlled from a remote location and use infrared sensors and high-resolution cameras. Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone."Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)," McDaniel told The Daily . . .
Civil liberties group ACLU is actively trying to stop the adoption of armed UAVs. Catherine Crump, an ACLU attorney, says there are several problems with the idea, but the main one is that police operating drones from a remote location may be shooting without access to all the information they need to make the right decision. Police on the scene can gain a lot more context than ones looking down from a UAV surveillance camera.
Another big issue is computer malfunction. If an armed drone is hacked, or has a bug, it could conceivably start randomly targeting innocents. With police operators miles away, a lot of damage could be done before the drone was stopped.
Crump added that the use of armed drones could actually be interpreted as an unconstitutional use of force.
If this legal battle heats up, we may be about to witness the first constitutional interpretations of the status of robots.
via CBSDC
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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