(WIP) Peace Robotics

Thinking about robots and the use of force.

My Background

Robots and Force

How Could Robots Help?

Some Practical Concerns

Common Ground

I’m sure you disagree with my pacifist convictions in one or way or another. But, granted concerns with privacy and misuse are addressed, we can all agree we want a society with less force.

On top of A society that leans less on force means you can have less fear about that force applied to you. There’s many example in the US, and even more abroad, of deadly force being misapplied to innocents. Just in the past year in the United States we’ve had several ICE shootings of individuals who did not need to be countered with lethal force, and once we zoom out beyond the anglosphere hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, suffer and die year after year from oppressive satates.

Frankly, this may even decrease some risk of specific outlets of authoritarianism - there’s a bit less on the line if the government will straight up never kill you, no matter how “against the state” you may be (this does assume the state does play by “no killing” rules, certainly a claim we can be skeptical of)

I believe that robotics can be a force to restrict killing instead of increase it. I’m afraid that people so readily accept that we might have a whole new class of human-independent means of killing, and I hope I can bring light to this issue throughout my life.

Humanity heads into the future of machines. It must be a future of peaceful machines.