Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards.I respectfully submit that anyone who doesn't believe that these things won't eventually be outfitted with weapons is seriously delusional.
I would not at all be surprised to learn that the wifi network that these things connect to is named SkyNet. Because Microsoft is that frigging tone-deaf.
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"K5 isn’t just for catching criminals, either: If you find yourself in trouble/danger, there’s also a button on the top of the robot that summons help from HQ"
ReplyDeleteI imagine that getting close enough to push the button will deafen you, eh ?
It'll be a touchy thing when they have to tell programmers to program in the racism that's so necessary to our social order.
ReplyDeleteAnd there will have to be committees to place the lethal/non-lethal line on the color bar...
It looks like you're trying to patrol the perimeter. Would you like me to:
ReplyDeleteo Go weapons hot?
o Load the .NET SAFETY_OVERRIDE module?
o Invoke a Blue Screen Of Death?
OK, where's the plunger?
ReplyDeleteThe plunger comes with the weaponry.
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