{"id":26799,"date":"2016-06-12T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/down-under-missing-3d-printer-used-to-make-illegal-gun-found-more-bikies-in-cuffs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:12","slug":"down-under-missing-3d-printer-used-to-make-illegal-gun-found-more-bikies-in-cuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/down-under-missing-3d-printer-used-to-make-illegal-gun-found-more-bikies-in-cuffs","title":{"rendered":"Down Under: Missing 3D Printer Used to Make Illegal Gun Found & More Bikies in Cuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several months ago I warned folks about how criminals can use AI (drones, robots, self driving cars, 3D printers printing drugs, etc.) against the public. Here is another example of how stolen technology can place people at risk.<\/p>\n

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Australia definitely has a love\/hate relationship with 3D printing. There are numerous research programs and innovative ideas coming to us from Down Under, from a periodontist bioprinting jaw and gum cells<\/a> for future dental surgeries to a group of entrepreneurs using the technology to benefit a charity<\/a> for children at risk. New partnerships<\/a> and distribution agreements<\/a> abound.<\/p>\n

3D printing is undoubtedly responsible for an inordinate amount of good happening\u2014with much more to come\u2014on the Australian continent. But the subject of fabricated weaponry has led the government to explore the dark side of this technology, with some police even admitting that they are terrified<\/a> of 3D printed guns. Whether law enforcement approves or not, the flow of hardware is certainly on the rise for offering the tools of the trade to designers on nearly every level, legal or otherwise.<\/p>\n

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Several months ago I warned folks about how criminals can use AI (drones, robots, self driving cars, 3D printers printing drugs, etc.) against the public. Here is another example of how stolen technology can place people at risk. Australia definitely has a love\/hate relationship with 3D printing. There are numerous research programs and innovative ideas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1488,1490,1493,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61532,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions\/61532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}