Stanford CIS

The ethics of using 'bomb robots' as killing machines

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"Ryan Calo, a faculty co-director at the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab who spent 2000 to 2003 investigating claims of misconduct at the New York Police Department, says he's concerned police were allowed to purchase a robot without a defined use for the machine.

"What are the guidelines around this?" he asked. "When you put these kind of tools into the hands of police, you need to be judicious.""

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