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San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill - Slashdot
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San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill
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San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill (cnn.com) 14
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on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:05AM from the how-about-that dept."There could be an extraordinary circumstance where, in a virtually unimaginable emergency, they might want to deploy lethal force to render, in some horrific situation, somebody from being able to cause further harm," Supervisor Aaron Peskin said at the board meeting, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. But Supervisors Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen and Shamann Walton voted against the policy, the Chronicle reported. "There is serious potential for misuse and abuse of this military-grade technology, and zero showing of necessity," Preston said at the meeting. Ultimately, the board adopted an amendment requiring one of two high-ranking San Francisco Police Department leaders to authorize any use of a robot for lethal force, according to the Chronicle.
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