RT @somebadideas: I don't know how to implore you to read up on the DOJ's report on It's essentially more dystopian than Robocop,…

Killer Robots: Keeping Control of Autonomous Weapons

Police agencies coercing people into committing crimes so they can arrest them is not completely unheard of. (It's been used liberally to create the idea that the nation is crawling with Islamic terrorists.)

Engineers say the robot is also equipped with a sophisticated audio command program that recognizes and subsequently ignores such phrases as “Stop” and “I give up” and is programmed to apply pressure to a prostrate suspect’s neck with a force of up to 500 PSI both before and after he’s stopped moving. Its operating system is also reportedly loaded with advanced visual recognition software that allows the robot to identify nearly any object in the subject’s hand as a weapon, prompting it to rapidly empty the clip on its extendable .40-caliber firearm.

RT @botherder: RoboCop movie's propaganda easter egg: "@Greenpeace attacked by @wikileaks

If you want to trust a robot, look at how it makes decisions