San Francisco Police Department’s proposal to introduce killer robots did not settle well with social media users. Several users have ridiculed this idea, while others have just poked fun at it, labeling it bizarre and drawing similarities with Black Mirror, a British show set in the dystopian future. 

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According to the proposal, unanimously approved by SFPD, these robots will be allowed to “use deadly force in situations where the risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD.”

The document highlights how the department plan to use this collection of 17 remote-controlled robots, five of which are not functioning. 

These military-styled robots are generally used for area inspection and bomb disposal says a police spokesperson. The department wants to use them for “training and simulations, criminal apprehensions, critical incidents, exigent circumstances, executing a warrant or during suspicious device assessments,” the proposal says further. 

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But after this idea was made public, social media users had a thing or two to say about it. Some users were simply mocked the proposal, other lambasted it for its consequences. 

“The killer robots in Chopping Mall are ludicrous and accurate,” wrote one Twitter user, posting an image of the aforementioned film, which centers around three murderous security robots. 

“I think I saw this movie. They put a psycho killer’s brain in the robot. RoboCop 2,” tweeted another. 

“Oh good now the police are getting armed robots to be able to more safely murder unarmed citizens in the street. Black Mirror wasn’t supposed to be prophesy why did they let people in Silicon Valley watch that one ep,”  wrote another user. 

“So much evil originates from this city: San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’,” says J Michael Waller, Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy. 

The new policy is yet to come to effect, before that it will be voted on by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday next week.