Opinion by Paul Waldman | Coming soon to your local police department: killer robots
FollowOur military has become increasingly reliant on drones to kill from afar. But when it comes to policing, we still assume that deadly force is almost never planned, but is used only when a situation has spun out of control.
Part of the problem is that unlike military personnel, cops controlling killer drones won’t be doing it as their primary job. They’ll likely be ordinary officers who get some special training but bring their own biases and reactions to their occasional assignment to control a killer drone. In the United States, that means police officers will likely be trained in the “
But they won’t easily be able to discard everything they’ve been taught about how to think and react in stressful situations. As more police departments deploy drones not just for surveillance but to interact with suspects — or protesters, or people acting erratically — it may be all too easy to press that red button on the joystick and use their exciting new equipment as it was designed.
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