{"id":129010,"date":"2021-10-14T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/war-dogs"},"modified":"2021-10-14T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T05:24:42","slug":"war-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/war-dogs","title":{"rendered":"War dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/war-dogs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we learned that an art group is planning a spectacle to draw attention to a provocative use of our industrial robot, Spot. To be clear, we condemn the portrayal of our technology in any way that promotes violence, harm, or intimidation. It\u2019s precisely the sort of thing the company tries to get out in front of. After decades of killer-robot science-fiction, it doesn\u2019t take much to make people jump any time an advanced robot enters the picture. It\u2019s the automaton version of Rule 34 (in staunch defiance of Asimov\u2019s First Law of Robotics): If a robot exists, someone has tried to weaponize it.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk about strapping guns to the backs of robots. I\u2019m not a fan (how\u2019s that for taking a stand?). When <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/22\/mschf-mounted-a-remote-control-paintball-gun-to-spot\/\">MSCHF did it with Spot<\/a> back in February, it was a thought experiment, art exhibit and a statement about where society might be headed with autonomous robotics. And most importantly, of course, it was a paintball gun. Boston Dynamics clearly wasn\u2019t thrilled with the message it was sending, noting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we learned that an art group is planning a spectacle to draw attention to a provocative use of our industrial robot, Spot. To be clear, we condemn the portrayal of our technology in any way that promotes violence, harm, or intimidation. It\u2019s precisely the sort of thing the company tries to get out in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}