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Seriously, they actually considered this. Thankfully advisors quit in protest but I'm sure we'll see more of this promoted as a solution to "community policing" ... you know, for your safety.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/taser-maker-axon-proposes-shock-234035489.html
Taser maker Axon proposes shock drones for schools, prompting company advisers to quit
The flying Taser drones would be pre-installed in school ceilings so an officer could launch one within seconds of a reported shooting, piloting it through special vents into locked classrooms, stunning the gunman with shock darts and shouting commands like, "Stay down or you will be hit again."
That, at least, was the proposal that police-contracting giant Axon championed last week after the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre. But the company has since halted the project following a mass resignation of its own advisers, who panned it as a crackpot dystopian fantasy that could militarize schools and get children hurt.
The shock drones, they worried, would stun innocent students or be abused by hackers, vandals or the police. Even if deployed appropriately, they may not be enough to take a gunman out. And the problem at Uvalde, some noted, wasn't a lack of firepower: Nineteen officers had waited outside the classroom's door for 47 minutes, wrongly believing the children were no longer in danger.
"It's such an obviously bad idea to use these in the context of schools. I mean, it's absurd," said Ryan Calo, one of nine members of Axon's artificial-intelligence ethics advisory board who resigned to protest the company's pursuit of the idea. "You cannot address these horrific national tragedies . . . by throwing a Taser on a drone."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/taser-maker-axon-proposes-shock-234035489.html
Taser maker Axon proposes shock drones for schools, prompting company advisers to quit
The flying Taser drones would be pre-installed in school ceilings so an officer could launch one within seconds of a reported shooting, piloting it through special vents into locked classrooms, stunning the gunman with shock darts and shouting commands like, "Stay down or you will be hit again."
That, at least, was the proposal that police-contracting giant Axon championed last week after the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre. But the company has since halted the project following a mass resignation of its own advisers, who panned it as a crackpot dystopian fantasy that could militarize schools and get children hurt.
The shock drones, they worried, would stun innocent students or be abused by hackers, vandals or the police. Even if deployed appropriately, they may not be enough to take a gunman out. And the problem at Uvalde, some noted, wasn't a lack of firepower: Nineteen officers had waited outside the classroom's door for 47 minutes, wrongly believing the children were no longer in danger.
"It's such an obviously bad idea to use these in the context of schools. I mean, it's absurd," said Ryan Calo, one of nine members of Axon's artificial-intelligence ethics advisory board who resigned to protest the company's pursuit of the idea. "You cannot address these horrific national tragedies . . . by throwing a Taser on a drone."
