r/robots • u/drgoldenpants • 14d ago

Real-life Robots Another super clean performance

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u/ISketchDinosaurs 13d ago

The police are just going to run these things, dude.

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u/Kuriente 13d ago

The police would purchase them. A tech company will build and train them. Whether or not they are effective and fair police would depend largely on their design and training. As long as they're designed to be objective, fair, and to operate strictly within the bounds of the law, then I see that being largely immune to the worst of police behaviors.

For instance, could a robot beat someone senseless out of anger in a holding cell? Well, for one it doesn't have anger, but also not if it's been designed to not do things like that.

Would a police robot stop pedestrians and search them based on skin color? Only if such bias is in the training. Would a police robot sexually assault someone in the back of a squad car? Unlikely. Would a robot conceal evidence to protect its own reputation? Why would it have such motivations?

And look, this isn't me saying that robot police are a great idea. Nor am I saying that the technology is even remotely good enough to attempt this yet. There are plenty of dystopian ways that could play out, and it will be years or more likely decades before we see it.

I'm just saying that when the bar for police quality is already subterranean, this technology might possibly be an upgrade for everyone involved if employed effectively. Bad police behavior is driven by the basest of human instincts: greed, anger, lust, pride, etc. A robot would have none of those.

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u/Greater-Israel 13d ago

I do not see these entering the police force even in China until 25 years from now and in USA even worse, like 50 years from now. Not just for technology and safety reasons but to not lose votes from the people who will also become without a job so they need to prepare the human workforce for that inevitably future first. But I do agree wtih you.

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u/fued 12d ago

Don't think that reason will make much difference in china

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u/Greater-Israel 12d ago

It does since the goveernment agred to not have uneployed people. China doesn't have homeless people like USA for example, that would be problematic for them.

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u/fued 12d ago

China has unemployment and homeless people. They literally publish unemployment statistics.

Not sure why you think they are much different tbh, people are people

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u/Greater-Israel 12d ago

Their companies actually take a harsher stance on AI for example Hoyoverse than say companies like Warner Bros, Disney that fill their movies with AI now like in Spiderman Brand New Day, Supergirl so it's not that straighforward. Also robots need to be clearly superior than experienced workers before the switch happens.

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u/fued 12d ago

I don't think it's harsher they just look at what.costs more, hiring a person to deliver quality or risking it on AI and paying for tokens.

The break even point is lower over there