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Originally Posted by Cuepee
Do you see that as an absolute statement, meaning no 'autonomous creep'?
Law enforcement currently use human controlled drones for surveillance and other uses. AI could creep in to tracking software such that the drone could map an area or follow a suspect with its AI engine and not require the operator to keep it over the target.
Do you foresee big debate/controversy over such AI creep or do you think that one day it will not be present and the next it just will used without consultation?
I get that is a bridge far from arming a drone and allowing it to effect an arrests so I am not trying to make that connection, but I do think that type of creep, in practice and with citizens getting used to that over time could open the door to the other 'enforcement' type aspects.
AI and neutral nets are already used in law enforcement, so the creep is there. But there is a big difference between a reversible outcome that passes by a human and allowing AI to decide non-reversible outcomes. This regardless if the former
isn't actually checked, the point is more about responsibility than reality.
I'm no legal expert, but my layman mind see some legal hurdles for law enforcement use which can be exemplified.
Let's assume a weaponized and autonomous drone kills someone in the field under law enforcement operation. When this happens, which of the following is the legal equivalent of the drone:
1. A human's signature ("I ordered the killing"").
2. A human's gun ("I killed")
3. A human's manual of procedures ("These are our parameters for acceptable lethal force")
4. A law enforcement officer ("the drone decided to kill")
Furthermore, if the killing was wrongful, but in accordance with drone programming, would it be accidental or intentional?
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I can imagine a future where there is a big legal difference between an autonomous drone which is simply turned on vs. a drone operated by keeping it turned on ("dead man's switch"), the latter would (to my layman's mind) make some of the legal hurdles simpler.
Last edited by tame_deuces; 06-05-2021 at 05:30 AM.