Can we dwell for a minute on the latter part of this headlinepic.twitter.com/NKDOKkxqZ2
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Can we dwell for a minute on the latter part of this headlinepic.twitter.com/NKDOKkxqZ2
Who activated the robot's "detonate" function? Was there a chain of command through which the order was issued? Lots of Qs to be answered.
We know who's responsible when someone gets shot: whoever pulled the trigger. Notions of causation and culpability are much murkier here.
Why's it harder to determine who issued an "explode" command than to figure out who fired a fatal bullet? Isn't it the opposite?
For one thing, because it's not common practice, and we don't know what protocols are followed in such an instance.
I don't see why notions of causation are murkier though. Presumably there are logs of who operated the thing. If not, there can be.
We'd need a lot more technical info to establish the causation sequence. More complicated than figuring out who fired a bullet.
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