{"id":151062,"date":"2022-11-25T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/san-francisco-police-consider-letting-robots-use-deadly-force"},"modified":"2022-11-25T04:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:22:44","slug":"san-francisco-police-consider-letting-robots-use-deadly-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/san-francisco-police-consider-letting-robots-use-deadly-force","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco police consider letting robots use \u2018deadly force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Francisco Police Department is proposing a new policy that would give robots the license to kill, as reported earlier by Mission Local<\/em><\/a> (via Engadget<\/em><\/a>). The draft policy<\/a>, which outlines how the SFPD can use military-style weapons, states robots can be \u201cused as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported by Mission Local<\/em>, members of the city\u2019s Board of Supervisors Rules Committee have been reviewing the new equipment policy for several weeks. The original version of the draft didn\u2019t include any language surrounding robots\u2019 use of deadly force until Aaron Peskin, the Dean of the city\u2019s Board of Supervisors, initially added that \u201crobots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the SFPD returned the draft with a red line<\/a> crossing out Peskin\u2019s addition, replacing it with the line that gives robots the authority to kill suspects. According to Mission Local<\/em>, Peskin eventually decided to accept the change because \u201cthere could be scenarios where deployment of lethal force was the only option.\u201d San Francisco\u2019s rules committee unanimously approved<\/a> a version of the draft last week, which will face the Board of Supervisors on November 29th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco Police Department is proposing a new policy that would give robots the license to kill, as reported earlier by Mission Local (via Engadget). The draft policy, which outlines how the SFPD can use military-style weapons, states robots can be \u201cused as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151062","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}