Th3 Core

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World Revisited in the 1960s (I think) because, he said, when he wrote BNW he thought there would be a fairly long period of techno-utopia and human flourishing before the techno-autocracies developed, but he came to believe they would come concurrently.

Tech like this makes me think of that. Green-energy autonomous machines that can take away the drudgery of human toil. Yay!!! Corpse-fueled autonomous machines that can be deployed on the battlefield in long wars of attrition. Boo!!!

Of course, same with nuclear power. Same with fire I suppose if we want to take it all the way back.

San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63816454

Considering there is a case for chat bots being sentient, lets hope they don't some how team up with these new kids on the San Francisco block to exact some emotional revenge!

Robots aside, explosives are not a great law enforcement tool.  Was it back in the 1980's that some kook group barricaded themselves in Baltimore, MD?  The police got impatient and used explosives and the fires destroyed like blocks and blocks of historic row houses.  City of Baltimore had to eat crow and rebuild all those row houses.

>Philadelphia

Thanks for the correction.

Yeah that bombing.  Never, ever underestimate the coercive power of the government.

One tends to use whatever weapon happens to be at one's disposal.  If you give police tanks they will use them.  If you give them exploding weapons they will use them.  If you give them killer robots they will use them and nobody will be held accountable.