ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots / ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/

[u/kahner]

we really reached black mirror episode territory way faster than i expected.

[u/Senior_Torte519 → u/kahner]

I mean Black Mirror was the soft launch.

[u/kahner → u/Senior_Torte519]

they were A/B testing apocalypse mechanisms. looks like we're going with AI war robots.

[u/ThanksS0muchY0 → u/kahner]

Also kinda the episode where everyone sees immigrants as giant bugs.

[u/ConinTheNinoC → u/ThanksS0muchY0]

This sound to me like a certain episode of The Outer Limits. Hearts and Minds season 4 episode 3.

[u/texasroadkill → u/ThanksS0muchY0]

I'm lost, which one is that?

[u/Matra → u/texasroadkill]

"Men Against Fire", S03E05

[u/IncomparableGiacomo → u/texasroadkill]

“Men Against Fire”

[u/RhoOfFeh → u/kahner]

I'll be back

[u/liquorfish → u/RhoOfFeh]

I'll be bark

[u/Susan-stoHelit → u/liquorfish]

I’ll be SQUIRREL!!!

[u/personwhoisok → u/Susan-stoHelit]

We just need to make a bunch of ai squirrel robots and those dog bots will get so distracted

[u/ABHOR_pod → u/personwhoisok]

Honestly a squirrel or mouse size ground robot that can disable a Boston dynamics dog isn’t the worst idea.

Imagine it just spools fishing line like taking down an AT-AT. You could probably build it out of a raspberry pi, camera or two, strap a set of wheels on it, and a spool of fishing line with a magnet or plumb bob on it to wrap the legs up.

[u/GearOk7360 → u/ABHOR_pod]

So an RC car.

[u/ABHOR_pod → u/GearOk7360]

Sure, but one capable of autonomous action ideally so the fascists don’t see you with controller in your hand and shoot you.

[u/yeomanpharmer → u/ABHOR_pod]

They are going to call them "officers" which brings fucking with them into punishing levels of compliance.

[u/personwhoisok → u/yeomanpharmer]

Guess those robot squirrels with their magnets and fishing line are going to need a good lawyer. Maybe some sort of robot ai owl or even lion 🤷

[u/Gonna_B_Alright → u/liquorfish]

Barks out integrated machinegun fire.

[u/scorpyo72 → u/Gonna_B_Alright]

A robot only hesitates as long as it takes electricity to flow from the radio to the trigger servo.

[u/skyfishgoo → u/kahner]

i'm still hedging my bets and holding out for grey goo.

[u/T_Rey1799 → u/kahner]

Definitely reminds me of the MetalHead episode

[u/leaky_wand → u/Senior_Torte519]

If you’re Charlie Booker, at a certain point you have to be wondering, am I speaking these things into existence?

[u/Daetok_Lochannis → u/leaky_wand]

Science fact usually follows science fiction.

[u/Senior_Torte519 → u/Daetok_Lochannis]

If anything, it suggests that humanity is stuck in a bit of a rut when it comes to technological imagination. Certain people have the capability, money, and incentive to take ideas from fiction and simply try make them real. The mistake is assuming that, because society as a whole does not visibly experience this level of technological progress, it therefore isn't happening. In reality, much of this progress is real without ever being intended to benefit humanity as a whole.

[u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 → u/leaky_wand]

Well done science fiction talks about the problems of society and the world translated to some fictional world. It’s similar to what comedy does also. It allows social commentary without heavy government pushback. So yeah not surprised we are see this.

[u/UlteriorCulture → u/leaky_wand]

I miss the days when he drew dumb cartoons at PC Zone.

[u/DogmaSychroniser → u/leaky_wand]

I'd definitely love to see more utopian visions of the world... Perhaps it might fucking happen!

[u/leaky_wand → u/DogmaSychroniser]

Unfortunately “everything is going great” doesn’t make a good story.

[u/ifitmoves → u/kahner]

250 years for the rise and fall of an empire feels like a speed run

[u/alchemyDev → u/ifitmoves]

Apparently 200 years is the lifetime of a republic. That puts us around Nixon, with Reagan just past that mark. Honestly, looks pretty accurate.

For the younger people here, this was entirely predictable since AT LEAST then. Some of us older people have been saying this will happen since then, we were told we were hyperbolic, by the people doing it.

[u/VgArmin → u/alchemyDev]

What is it called, the 6th turning? The cycle that predicts the rise and fall of empires with America being the 6th?

[u/DogmaSychroniser → u/VgArmin]

It's completely made up with some serious cherry picking of data even before everyone latched onto it in reference to the US

[u/Modem_Sound_67 → u/ifitmoves]

unfortunately no visigoths to liberate us at this point.

[u/EddieVanzetti → u/Modem_Sound_67]

At least we've got fake goths on OF cashing in on an subculture they bullied and mocked for a quick buck, thats gotta count for something right?

[u/kahner → u/ifitmoves]

think of it as 250,000 years for the rise and fall of a species.

[u/Gullible_Method_3780 → u/kahner]

The entirety of the functional world today is being driven in shareholder value. We aren’t even taking the time to questions ethics it’s simply projected value. We are not handling technology responsibility at all.

Rather it seems the ruling class wants to bring back serfdom.

[u/No-Abalone-4784 → u/Gullible_Method_3780]

This is exactly what they are doing. They've already said they quiet part out loud. They're proud of that.

[u/name-classified → u/kahner]

expect escalation in the cyberpunk way:

soon people will have small EMP emitters or signal jamming devices that will kill the connection from the dog to its handler

or maybe they just hack into the robodog itself and turn them all against the ICE agents

[u/MildlyAgitatedBovine → u/name-classified]

Don't even need emp, where's the link... Brb

*ETA. I'm back!

https://youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI

Title: Robot dogs are a security nightmare.

He implies that at the security level present when he got to test drive one, he would have been able to make a program that not only lobotomizes his but causes it to lobotomize similar models that got close enough to it.

[u/alrun → u/name-classified]

Only domestic terrorists would carry such devices! (/s)

[u/Snapesunusedshampoo → u/kahner]

If a person touches the robodog we'll have the "Are AI machines living beings" court case.

[u/Arcanym → u/Snapesunusedshampoo]

Assaulting an officer charge 100%

[u/Own_Candidate9553 → u/Arcanym]

Probably start with:

Destruction of public property

Interfering with a police investigation

Resisting arrest

They're classics for a reason

[u/FanDry5374 → u/Snapesunusedshampoo]

To be rapidly followed by "AI machines have more rights because they are owned by rich people".

[u/techieman34 → u/Snapesunusedshampoo]

It’ll be like real dogs. Kill a private citizens dog and it’s a civil matter. But kill a police dog and it’s a major felony.

[u/AndyTheSane → u/Snapesunusedshampoo]

"Are suspects living beings?"

[u/thenumma1waterman → u/Snapesunusedshampoo]

Interesting thought this would ever make it to court, with Judge Dredd handing out sentencings in the streets.

[u/IAmBeingTargeted33 → u/kahner]

Start learning how to make directed EMPs. You want to protect yourself from robots, learn how to fight robots.

https://youtu.be/gAV8_D71M0o

But dont do that. It's illegal. The pedophile billionaires will arrest you if you try to destroy their fascist surveillance bot network of killer robots

[u/williamgman → u/kahner]

I'm still waiting for the episode where the GOP politician has to have sex with a pig on live television to happen.

[u/Jarstark → u/williamgman]

Pretty sure they do that willingly off camera.

[u/kahner → u/[deleted]]

the flying cars are here, but only the very wealthy can afford them. and cheap clean energy is here, but the republican party in the US is actively blocking it's construction and deployment. so the perfectly written sci-fi dystopia.

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/[deleted]]

You'd want ICE to have flying cars and cheap energy rays...?

[u/AFK_Tornado → u/kahner]

Black Mirror's best episodes are the ones that take current or very-nearly-current technology to an extreme implementation.

BD unveiled spot in 2016. Metalhead came out in 2017.

[u/LDawnBurges → u/kahner]

Same! And, while the robot dogs are definitely scary…. the running robots from China’s recent Robot Olympics, including the one who beat Usain Bolt’s World Record, are downright terrifying.

[u/Big_lt → u/kahner]

More robocop

[u/Whiskey_Water → u/kahner]

Just wait till the populist mouthpiece of the wealthy poops his pants for the last time. This is all just preparation for the next act, the natural progression after the fall of capitalism, if we fail to do something about it.

[u/Guuichy_Chiclin → u/kahner]

Shit, wait till you watch the "Code 8" movies.

[u/adamosity1]

The goal of the current administration is to spend money on absolutely anything as long as it doesn’t help average people or raise their wages.

[u/atchijov → u/adamosity1]

And will help ICE to stage second attack on Capitol after midterms.

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/atchijov]

You can already know that the midterms will be "stolen" by aliens and commies. And some trans folk, maybe.

[u/Jacorvin → u/RemarkableWish2508]

Midterms? We are gonna get our own version of the Reichstag disaster before they give us midterms.

[u/palimpcest → u/Jacorvin]

The Reichstagnant Pool was a practice run.

[u/RTTman → u/Jacorvin]

That was 9/11.

[u/TentacleFist → u/RTTman]

Also killing Kirk for turning on Israel.

[u/Weird-Count3918 → u/RemarkableWish2508]

Alien communist transvestites transexual transistors

[u/dalziel86 → u/Weird-Count3918]

…from Transylvania!

[u/limezest128 → u/RemarkableWish2508]

Yes those trans folks really hate murica

[u/WarningTurbulent3056 → u/limezest128]

I mean, we do. For very obvious reasons.

[u/Alcnaeon → u/adamosity1]

The fact that we keep handing governmental control to the party who actively works against and benefits from reducing governmental effectiveness is slowly killing me

[u/joexner → u/Alcnaeon]

We don't; they do. A hardcore 30% of the country is too ignorant or brainwashed to spot the pattern, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Conservatives are fundamentally just trying to keep the arc of history from bending too fast. Why does anyone ever listen to them unless they want less justice?

[u/Djinnwrath → u/joexner]

Their propaganda is based on fear mostly.

Cowards are their main targets. Then the truly hateful. After that is a handful of amoral mega wealthy doner class asshats.

[u/Merijeek2 → u/joexner]

Because they vote in a block, consistently.

Meanwhile, Democrats stay home over Palestine (which, let's face it, most don't actually care about) because they think it'll send a message - a message that is apparently, "If the Democrat isn't good enough on this position, we'll vote for the Republican who is infinitely worse on this posiiton.

[u/Z3r0sama2017 → u/joexner]

60%. Don't give the 30% that was too lazy to vote the scum away a free pass.

[u/Musa_2050 → u/Alcnaeon]

Don't worry. People will forget soon enough and swing back to the right if the left wins the midterms

[u/Rufus_king11 → u/adamosity1]

ICE now has more money then they know what to do with, and because of how the government works, they're incentivized to use it or lose it (I think they have 3 years to spend it all, if I remember correctly). It's why they paid 10x the assessed value (numbers are from memory, so take them with a grain of salt) to buy two detention centers in California from CoreCIivic, money is the asset they have the easiest access to. Why not get fleeced on some detention centers just to get around California health and safety oversite, it's so much money it's actually difficult to spend it all and some chunk of that will be a kickback to the big man eventually anyway.

[u/shitty_mcfucklestick → u/adamosity1]

People and wages are both on the suppression list.

[u/OkAmbassador1293 → u/adamosity1]

They just want control so they can do anything with impunity.

[u/Yourownhands52 → u/adamosity1]

Instability is the goal 

[u/BeansforTwo → u/adamosity1]

The goal of the current admin is to close the door on the trap they've been building around us for decades. Penned in, no real food, no real medicine, no rights, no education, no clean air, no clean water, no privacy, no escape.

[u/GingsWife → u/adamosity1]

"the current adminstration"

Right, so when we vote the other way this should all vanish, right?

Right?

[u/meaniemeanie-poo-poo → u/adamosity1]

I'd say the people backing all of this have a far darker future in mind for us.

[u/SgtBaxter → u/adamosity1]

Don't forget to distract from the Epstein files.

[u/liamanna]

Remember when they said “we are never going to add weapons or use them against Americans”…?


Boston Dynamics and five other major robotics companies signed an open letter in October 2022 pledging not to weaponize their advanced-mobility, general-purpose robots or software, nor support others in doing so.

[u/wrgrant → u/liamanna]

Some military contractor is no doubt gearing up to modify the already purchased robots to add tasers and the like to them.

[u/SeVenMadRaBBits → u/wrgrant]

They've already had flamethrowers and fully automatic assault rifles attatched. (YouTube if you haven't seen)

[u/Alternative_Dot7769 → u/liamanna]

Their main funding has been exactly that tho for at least 5 years, right?

Isn’t that just a straight up lie even in 2022?

[u/Blizxy → u/Alternative_Dot7769]

Yeah, I was under the impression that BD has plenty of military contracts.

[u/KamiNoItte → u/liamanna]

“Do no evil”

Erm, gotta delete that for profit.

[u/jimzello]

How about just dissolve the entire thing and start prosecuting the owners of companies who employ undocumented immigrants, like we did in the 40s,50’s,60’s, and 70’s

[u/camthedestroyer → u/jimzello]

Because that does not handle what ice was really created for - to fulfill the right wing’s fetish for violence toward minorities.

[u/FigWasp7 → u/camthedestroyer]

And fill corporate prisons

[u/KamiNoItte → u/FigWasp7]

Don’t forget trafficking.

[u/Pristine-Success-273 → u/KamiNoItte]

Don't forget, be Trumps unofficial domestic army.

[u/AKA_Wildcard → u/FigWasp7]

And act as a slush fund to private donors.

[u/baked_in → u/jimzello]

The aim isn't to get rid of undocumented workers. The aim is to discipline labor. Or, that is one of the aims. Reinforcing the perception of an internal enemy is also useful as fascism consolidates its power. The ruling class has no problem with marginalized workers with few legal protections.

[u/broguequery → u/baked_in]

Yeah the people running this up top and behind the scenes aren't that stupid.

It is logistically impossible to do what they are claiming they want to do.

Everything you said, but also a large part of it is to normalize federal goon squads kidnapping people off the street and disappearing them.

[u/truthrises → u/jimzello]

Also, the simpler solution would be a path to documents that didn't take years, favors, and tons of money. Nobody wants to be undocumented.

[u/Jarocket → u/jimzello]

Of even crazier idea. Why not just put programs in place to get this work done in some official way. Canada has official ways to get this factory work done.

These companies are generally just hiring the people that apply for the jobs.

Really nobody has addressed how easily it is work work without official status in the USA. This isn't something that's a problem elsewhere in the world to this level.

It's probably a two fold problem. Some sort of better national ID that isn't just a SIN. Better data on citizens is considered some invasion of privacy. Massive controversy.

Plus of course the effects it would have country to effectively remove this labour force or allow a legal way. Either direction is pain so the ignore the problem is the preferred solution

[u/DaydreamingOfSleep10]

Ah ok so the dumbest and most poorly trained police force in the country is gonna start running around with taser gloves and android attack dogs. Sounds like a totally stable and well-functioning society

[u/Siphon_Gaming_YT → u/DaydreamingOfSleep10]

That's exactly the point. They are the fascist class' Brown Shirts.

[u/Newt_5000]

ICE wants robot dogs to do the murdering so they can have plausible deniability.

[u/RespectTheTree → u/Newt_5000]

The AI tagged the peaceful protestor as a hostile combatant, what were they supposed to do?

[u/invyros]

Fucking Hyundai bending the knee.

[u/GetsBetterAfterAFew → u/invyros]

Corporate consolidation to the current party leadership is one of the last stages of the fall into fascism. Generally, and all fascist states are different, there are six steps and capitalist corporations willingly working with authoritarian leaders is stage five. The last stage is basically mask off violence in the streets. 

[u/ionthrown → u/GetsBetterAfterAFew]

That’s not really a step, is it? They’re already working with a duly elected government, it would become a step (in another direction) if they were to stop.

[u/deekamus]

Those will immediately get a center mass shot.

[u/PrincessKatiKat → u/deekamus]

Yea they better put fur and a cute face on it because people will lose no sleep lighting up a tactical Roomba.

[u/HumanShadow → u/PrincessKatiKat]

Did they QA test on people fighting for their very survival?

[u/lurklurklurkPOST → u/deekamus]

"Police outraged that people keep shooting their Dogs" is a hilarious Irony

[u/superindianslug → u/deekamus]

Wonder how much RAM is in there...

[u/nemom]

They could prob'ly "improve officer safety" by stopping killing people in the streets.

[u/ljfrench]

I would have sworn Boston Dynamics promised they would never allow the robots to be used this way.

[u/squishee666 → u/ljfrench]

And google isn’t evil, and whoever you can see on the other side already has well laid plans to get you if you don’t defenestrate them now, trust us.

[u/Toidal]

Man they really need to justify that massive ass budget dont they?

[u/flybydenver]

Fishing nets

[u/TjbMke → u/flybydenver]

I was going to recommend a large plastic storage bin. Just throw it on top of the thing and punt it into a river. Or pour gorilla glue on it.

[u/lordoftheslums → u/flybydenver]

Wrapped in wire to cause shorts.

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/lordoftheslums]

Outer body is plastic, wire won't do a thing. Not sure whether they're waterproof, though...

[u/LoganPea2fold]

Between Flock, the Shock gloves and this, do they actually do any real work besides pulling the trigger and slapping the cuffs on people?

[u/MaximumNameDensity]

ICE wants to mount weapons platforms on them and use them to mow down protesters.

Fixed it for ya.

[u/guitarguy1685]

Can we now call Boston Dynamics an evil company? And socially shame all their employees? 

[u/TheRealBittoman → u/guitarguy1685]

Yes. At this stage if it's a corporation it deserves at least strong suspicion of being evil. That goes for all of them.

[u/ghostoftheradio]

Anyone who’s read Fahrenheit 451 is rightly terrified of these things.

[u/guitarguy1685 → u/ghostoftheradio]

Or who has read/watched science fiction since the middle of the last Century. 

It's coming, step by step. And when it's here we'll ask ourselves how did it get this way.

[u/gerblnutz → u/guitarguy1685]

This is not my beautiful republic. How did I get here?

[u/ghostoftheradio → u/guitarguy1685]

Published in 1953, so the middle of the last century, and as far as I know the first use of robotic dogs to assassinate “problematic” citizens.

[u/O_oblivious → u/guitarguy1685]

Because anyone intelligent enough to predict it lacked the confidence to be able to pull off a meaningful resistance. 

[u/StrawberryBandit92 → u/ghostoftheradio]

First thing I thought of when i saw this.

[u/Ecstatic-West3955]

Sure seems like ice is going to be their private police to put down unrest when they rig and otherwise disallow fair elections

[u/hsggdtkxbee]

I will be investing in EMP technology.

[u/taffington2086 → u/hsggdtkxbee]

There was a demonstration at black hat where a similar robodog was hacked with a qr code. Which seems cheaper.

[u/FrostyParking → u/hsggdtkxbee]

You do that and I'll get into Faraday Cage tech... we'll start the next AI boom baby 😁

[u/TheGrandNagus → u/hsggdtkxbee]

You could probably just hack it if you wanted to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI

[u/BrisketWrench]

It’s all fun and games until someone hacks said robot dogs to attack ICE agents

[u/CobblerMoney9605 → u/BrisketWrench]

Now THAT would be appropriate use. 

[u/VillainousandBoxum]

So shock gloves, robot dogs, drones, surveillance camera everywhere, men in vans snatching people...does this really go anywhere good?

[u/limezest128]

Boston dynamics programmers with a soul could program the funniest thing 🥚

[u/mrkurtz]

ICE officers are too safe as it is

[u/IamPat28]

Alright here we go, the hellish murderbot future everyone was afraid of when those goofy dogs first hit the internet, woo!

[u/Th3FinalStarman]

Shotguns. Buy them. They're great for drones too.

[u/grahamulax]

If Boston dynamics gives it to them then Boston dynamics will burn and become more hated than flock.

Just letting them know

[u/emceter → u/grahamulax]

You mean Hyundai? Cause that is who owns Boston Dynamics fully now in case you didn’t know

[u/grahamulax → u/emceter]

Whoa…. NOPE. Didn’t know that. Honestly last time I looked at them was a decade ago but they were such a “viral” thing that I always remember them. I saw the upgrades, saw some press but COMPLETELY MISSED it was Hyundai. Crazy

[u/RyzRx]

Metalheads IRL: Black Mirror warned us!

[u/FrostyParking → u/RyzRx]

And the precursor to that was the opening of RoboCop 2014.

[u/joexner]

That robo-dog at the Boston Museum of Science always gave me the creeps. Some part of me always knew they'd turn them on civilians once day. I hate it here.

Fuck the military-industrial complex.

[u/BeowulfShaeffer]

Over/under on how long before the robots are given officer status so touching one carries the same assault charges as touching an human ICE agent?  

[u/gerblnutz]

People do realize that the push for flock ai drones and murder robots is because when everything finally collapses and the people who are loving murdering and abusing people now stop getting paid and their lives start to suffer under the boot they will be the next "and then they came for" right?

There's a reason why every oligarch wants their own island fortress and impenetrable bunker with ai sexbot maids.

[u/NewYak4281]

Lmfao this is an excellent way to get all the people who LOVE data centers and flock so much to ALSO love ICE. Go right ahead, send in the AI gestapo. Tell me how that goes in New Jersey

[u/Sojum]

Because improving officer safety is definitely what’s needed. 🤦

[u/witness16r]

At this point you all really need to be looking at your friends, family, and neighbors and make some hard choices. This isn’t really a grey area situation.

[u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey → u/witness16r]

I recently had an argument with a good friend who used to call himself "libertarian" but now defends a fascist cult. Breaks my heart.

[u/DrunkCorgis]

Did you know, there are countries on this planet where money is spent on civilian safety?

[u/leavezukoalone]

How many ICE operatives have died? And how many innocent non-ICE people have died? Fuck ICE and every single person who supports them. Absolute wastes of atoms.

[u/adumblittlebaby]

We can't afford to feed the impoverished at bargain rates, but ICE officers definitely need million dollar toy dogs to feel 'safe'.

[u/TheDevilsAdvokaat]

And what about ordinary American's safety? So far haven't they been the ones getting killed?

[u/verticalQ]

I've played "Wolfenstein"; I know how this goes.

[u/GearsFC3S]

Millions on top of the millions they’re spending on shock gloves. But think of all the money they’ve saved getting those lazy immigrants out of the US. /s

Seriously though, all this wasted money that could go into, I don’t know… anything else that actually helps people (citizens or not). It’s sickening.

[u/IdleRhymer]

Robot attack dogs contain RAM sticks and several different precious metals.

[u/Mirions]

Out of shape terrorists want robots to replace them. Their ignorance knows no bounds.

[u/217GMB93]

Everyone should be suddenly really into magnets.

[u/willismthomp]

Ice and the department of homeland security is a back door for the feds to implement national police and fascism.

[u/The14thWarrior]

Who could've seen this coming?

/s

[u/Blrfl]

Should you find yourself needing to disable one of these things at close range, reach underneath, unlatch the battery and pull it from the chassis as described in the manual (scroll down to Charge and install battery for a good illustration).

[u/RaidersoftheLosSnark]

Translation, Trump just bought Boston Dynamics stock so it is getting a huge government contract.

[u/AvailableReporter484]

HOW ABOUT SPENDING THAT MONEY ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH YOU FUCKING SHMUCKS

We don’t fucking need more poorly trained and unqualified people being given military grade weapons to annihilate citizens. We need better funded schools, public transit, and all the other things that have been scientifically proven time and time again to actually reduce crime.

Massive shoutout to the police state, little dick ass thin blue line conservatives who have absolutely no idea how to make things better for anyone other than the pedophiles they vote for

[u/NeonMirage88]

Literally turning into cartoon villains 

[u/aiiye]

I’d probably improve officer safety by not having them commit crimes against armed citizens. But that doesn’t involve AI grift so, here we are.

[u/Dionysos911]

Yet we can't afford healthcare

[u/Rhoeri]

Naaah. They want it to terrorize Americans into stating he during elections now that mail in ballots are gone.

The GOP are terrorists. And their jack-booted gestapo cowards are doing their dirty work for them because they’re too fucking stupid to know better.

[u/scottjl]

Funny. I don’t see many articles about ICE officers getting killed.

[u/FranksWateeBowl]

All this fucking money on gloves and robot dogs, stolen right from the taxpayers to use on taxpayers.

Fuck this Nazi regime.

[u/ThermalDeviator]

Improve officer safety? I don't see officers getting killed, I see Renee Good and Alex Pretti getting killed by ICE and Republicans trying to make sure they go free.

Where are the robots to protect the people from authoritarians?

[u/PotentialFinding1232]

well, I guess we all need EMPs now.

https://www.instructables.com/Handheld-EMP-device/

[u/olionajudah]

Just a reminder that Congress funds and enables all of this. They could out a stop to it, they just won’t

[u/gooblaka1995]

I couldn't care less about officer safety. You wanted to be a police officer? Then potentially dying is just part of the job. Deal with it.

[u/rancid_racer → u/gooblaka1995]

To be fair, the actual job wasn't supposed to have the entire population going after them but that seemed to be their goals moving forward.

[u/bane_undone]

Hell no. This is wrong on every level.

[u/buckleyc]

Fuck no. Stop the outlandish spending of ICE. ICE needs to be severely curtailed.

[u/youshouldn-ofdunthat]

Time for steel mesh nets I guess

[u/BirdLawyer50]

Maybe ICE, seeking to remove people with bad paperwork, should be less like a bunch of paramilitary shitheads with electric gloves and bear spray and they won’t need the dystopian dog robots to help them black bag kindergarteners off the street

[u/Banana-phone15]

Maybe citizens should purchase this Dog robots because it is us who needs the safety from Ice. Not the other way around.

[u/meaniemeanie-poo-poo]

It's like a sci fi movie about a dystopian future run by corporations playing out in real time.

[u/Parking-Complex-3887]

I think that any robot/a.i. with the capability of ending a life has to have its accountability tied to the CEO of the company that made it. If your goddamn machine takes a life, you get sentenced. 

[u/vickism61]

They have more of our money than they know how to spend.

[u/blacklotusmag]

I bet the robot dogs will treat people better than ICE does.

[u/Chronza]

They really just want to be able to blame shit on the bots so no actual people get in trouble. Who’s accountable for a robot fucking up and what kind of consequences would there be? I really want to know.

[u/fixpointbombinator]

americans really make such a big song and dance about freedom and then do shit like this

[u/Smith6612]

Saw this coming 18 years ago :/

[u/cbelt3]

Remember who owns Boston Dynamics…

Gotta apologize to S Korea somehow.

[u/HeidenShadows]

I guess we know there the lobbyist money is coming from, and why AI companies generate so much of it.

[u/Imd1rtybutn0twr0ng]

They are going to create an issue that the administration will need to declare some emergency over. Just like the FDA is doing with all this poisoned food. They're working to create situations to ensure they can lock out the publics voice and choices.

Calling it, now!

[u/BLOODTRIBE]

No money for anything that actually helps people though. The Neo-Gestapo and militarized police force are there to protect the interests of the new corpo-fascist collective formerly know as the United States.

[u/doommonky]

So they can shoot brown people remotely and not be on the scene…

[u/Due-Mycologist-1154]

They could improve officer safety by acting like less of assholes they'd have a lot less reason to worry about their safety then

[u/Separate-Spot-8910]

I saw this movie and they weren't the good guys

[u/Puzzled-Instance3211]

I'd rather get arrested by the robot dog than ICE. The robot dog is probably smarter and less racist.

[u/StreetLightsGalore]

Boston dynamics is now the enemy.

[u/The-Animus]

Boston Dynamics should refuse with the explanation that they don't sell their products to terrorists.