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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees (www.wbur.org)
submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 85 points 1 week ago (5 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.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago

...aaaand now the workers have been Terminated. Problem solved.

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Which episode?

Edit: Someone posted this

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Season 4 episode 5: metalhead

[–] uber_chicken@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

They thought they would be used in other countries. Not theirs

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I thought they were for parimutual racing events

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well, they ain't gonna do much. For $1.3M they're only getting 3 or 4. You couldn't control my little redneck town with 4 robots.