Originally published at: Los Angeles considers deploying a robotic police dog | Boing Boing
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History, even recent history, shows us that if it CAN be abused by police, it WILL be abused by police.
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I hope they don’t go through with the purchase but if they do they should at least give it a proper sci-fi dystopian name, like “Los Angeles Police Department, Offensive Ground-unit (L.A.P.D.O.G.)”
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Or, you know, just call it the Mechanical Hound.
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I know you are jesting, but this is too close to being a realized reality and end case.
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Hyundai Motor Group owns Boston Dynamics. Hence…
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Like this?
eta: or The Rat Things from Snow Crash
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SFPD: “We think we’ll start killing people with our robots, something we previously promised not to do.”
NYPD: “We use our robots to spy on police critics. Wait, forget we said that, no we don’t, definitely not. Totally untrue, please ignore the evidence.”
LAPD: “Let us have robots, we promise not to kill anyone with them, or spy on anyone. You can trust us, even though we lie about everything all the time.”
Boston Dynamics: “We won’t let our robots be used by the military. Militarized police, on the other hand…”
Cool, cool.
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There are a few things I am tempted to try midjourney for, to see what comes out. One is the rat things. Another is a self devouring ouroboros style leech.
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So another possible name for it is the Hyundai Electronic Los Angeles Law Enforcement Hostage Operations, Utility, and Noncombat Dog.
Edit: Forgot an “L”
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We’ll have to have a new acronym/hashtag
#ACRAB
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The dystopia is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
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Look at the fingers… just LOOK at them! 
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Supposedly these things can’t detect when their legs are obstructed by cords. Apparently Boston Dynamics never watched The Empire Strikes Back.
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