UK Column News - Friday, 25th November 2022 22:35 - Robotic peacekeeping: Police deniability and lower budgets

 

UK Column News - Friday, 25th November 2022 22:35 - Robotic peacekeeping: Police deniability and lower budgets

22:35 Robot police now a reality with artificial intelligence

Mission Local: San Francisco Police Dept authorized to kill suspects using robots in draft policy

Legal framework for this: Law Enforcement use of Equipment Policy: Inventory acquired prior to January 2022, Police Department (City of San Francisco)

Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD

Section 5

Patrick Henningsen commentary: What is the endgame here? Deadly force by machine error is a legal category all of its own—where is the liability?

25:36 In 2016 Dallas shooting, police used a robot

Texas Tribune: Police use of robot to kill Dallas suspect unprecedented, experts say (2016)

Patrick Henningsen: A robot lobbed in a grenade to dispatch the cornered shooter before any investigation whatsoever had taken place

America's Lawyer: Police arming robots with shotguns

Policing Insight: Cops and robots: The "new normal" for UK police with an automated workforce

28:58 Guardian: "Robot soldiers could make up ¼ of British army by 2030s"—citing General Sir Nick Carter (2020)

29:33 UN General Assembly says this should be illegal nearly a decade ago

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns (9 April 2013)—admission that there is no legal framework for robocops

Journal of Institutional Economics—Liability for robots I: legal challenges

Propose a new liability regime which blends negligence-based rules and strict manufacturer liability rules to create optimal incentives for robot torts [...] The social cost of machine error promises to be drastically lower than that of human negligence. We should therefore welcome the development of robot technology.

Patrick Henningsen: This robocopisation is clearly being driven by the lawyers