{"id":140214,"date":"2022-06-06T21:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/axon-halts-plans-to-make-a-drone-equipped-with-a-taser"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:03:19","slug":"axon-halts-plans-to-make-a-drone-equipped-with-a-taser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/axon-halts-plans-to-make-a-drone-equipped-with-a-taser","title":{"rendered":"Axon halts plans to make a drone equipped with a Taser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Axon<\/a> has paused work on a project to build drones equipped with its Tasers<\/a>. A majority of its artificial intelligence ethics board<\/a> quit after the plan was announced last week.<\/p>\n

Nine of the 12 members said in a resignation letter<\/a> that, just a few weeks ago, the board voted 8\u20134 to recommend that Axon shouldn\u2019t move forward with a pilot study for a Taser-equipped drone concept. \u201cIn that limited conception, the Taser-equipped drone was to be used only in situations in which it might avoid a police officer using a firearm, thereby potentially saving a life,\u201d the nine board members wrote. They noted Axon might decline to follow that recommendation and were working on a report regarding measures the company should have in place were it to move forward.<\/p>\n

The nine individuals said they were blindsided by an announcement<\/a> from the company last Thursday \u2014 nine days after 19 elementary school students and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas \u2014 about starting development of such a drone. It had an aim of \u201cincapacitating an active shooter in less than 60 seconds.\u201d Axon said it \u201casked the board to re-engage and consider issuing further guidance and feedback on this capability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Axon has paused work on a project to build drones equipped with its Tasers. A majority of its artificial intelligence ethics board quit after the plan was announced last week. Nine of the 12 members said in a resignation letter that, just a few weeks ago, the board voted 8\u20134 to recommend that Axon shouldn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,32,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-education","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140214","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}