They’re also probably the only robots we’ll be able to get right anytime soon, since the strategy is just ‘pile on more disposable ones’ rather than making them super-refined.
Ooh, there are lots of fun psychological options, aren’t there? And that’s before we pull out the spider-bots! (technically more effective from a biomimicry standpoint)
I like to think we’d also make ‘Teddy Bear Herder’ the coolest job on the police force! I could see some of them training their bots to do weird things though, because…humans.
Still, better than making random holes in people and things, right? It’s not a perfect idea, but it’s worth inserting in the conversation to shift the paradigm to fundamentally ineffective weapons.
Policing should be about defusing bad moments, not making more of them.
