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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees (www.wbur.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1494885/ice-plan-to-buy-robot-dogs-spurs-protest-from-hundreds-of-boston-dynamics-employees

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[–] 85 points 5 days ago (10 children)

And just what in the fuck did you think the autonomous robot dogs were going to be used for, exactly??

Boston Dynamics has been very upfront about the fact that they've been developing the robot dogs for "police and military" applications. This protest is performative; they've known exactly what they're doing for a very long time.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Workers at Terminator factory upset that Terminators being sold to people who love Terminating

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago*

    No, you don’t understand! The company said we were designing our robots to be able to hold a gun, so that it could use seed cannons to autonomously plant trees! So that it could use squirtguns to fight fires! So that it could play laser tag with children! Why would they lie about something like that?

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I thought Black Mirror nailed it.

    The real helpful usage could be a pack animal type carrier, but I dont think that causes enough Pain and Suffering^^^tm^^^ to appease the overlords.

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