Councilman Ben Kallos wants to ban NYPD from using ‘weaponized robots’

By David Meyer - March 21, 2021

He doesn’t want Robocops joining the NYPD.

A new city council bill would ban Big Apple cops from using “weaponized” robots.

“The bill says that you can’t weaponize robots in a way that can harm people,” Councilman Ben Kallos (D-Manhattan), who told introduced the legislation last week, told The Post on Sunday. “It’s one thing to use a robot to defuse a bomb, but it’s another thing to weaponize a robot for interacting with people.”

Police “use guns when their life is in jeopardy and that is all,” Kallos argued. “If there’s a robot involved, there’s no human life to protect and therefore it doesn’t need to be weaponized in the first place.”

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