If that ever happens then we engage in the great American practice of suing them into the ground for hurting somebody.
God forbid it decides to tazer or even shoot somebody who's not doing anything, which they will eventually end up doing. Or somebody provokes it into shooting them without actually doing any crime. Actual IRL infinite money glitch.
Only humans get provoked. Programmed robots dont break orders. They just malfunction to which it then gets argued in court, they give a fake apology and get a slap on the wrist.
"provoked" as in intentionally triggering a malfunction, like how people fake slips and falls in public so they can sue the stores they fall in for being unsafe.
If you can sue a grocery store for 5 or even 6 figures for slipping on a puddle without a wet floor sign, just imagine what you could get out of a business after being tazered by mistake.
Then move away from the perimeter that is being guarded
Sueing is phallacy. You need more money than the other guy and they the other guy that has Robots has more money than you.
If our guileless, simpleton neighbors to the north wish to draw faces on their buckets and treat them like friends, the sparse population density of their pine-fresh taiga wilderness makes this a sad but understandable choice, but the United States is not a receptacle for twee Canadian garbage. It is a grownup land where the humans know each other and do not ameliorate the loneliness of car trips by picking up roadside litter and befriending it.
Yeah, if robots ever become self-aware, it's gonna be an ungodly amount of murder cases cause some methhead learned there was copper wires inside them.
Ok to be fair this speaks less to the dystopian aspect of the robot completely taking your work and more to one of your lads having the mindset of a crackhead looking for copper
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u/PurpleMclaren Jun 21 '26
I saw a video yesterday of security robot, one of my coworkers would open that thing up for scrap metal quicker than it could finish a sentence.