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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees (www.wbur.org)
submitted 1 day ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 82 points 1 day 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 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 day ago

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

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day 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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which episode?

Edit: Someone posted this

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

Season 4 episode 5: metalhead

[–] uber_chicken@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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

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

I thought they were for parimutual racing events

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.