I. Robotic policing offers the potential for numerous benefits. List them in order from most valuable to least valuable. Now annotate your list with your guess as to the likelihood of achieving this benefit if we have robotic police.
II. Robotic policing offers the potential for numerous harms. List them in order from most harmful to least harmful. Now annotate your list with your guess as to the likelihood of suffering this harm if we have robotic police.
III. What are ths sorts of tasks that police currently do which are vulnerable to the difficulties set out in Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? Can you identify other common police activities that might not be subject to these difficulties?
IV. The prospect of robotic police inevitably shades into the issue of algorithmic justice. Who writes the algorithm, and what data we feed it, are difficult and contested terrain. Will robotic police be easier or harder to monitor than human police?
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