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href="https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/249/784/292/">The Implications
of Robot Dogs Were Already Eerie Enough. Now, They’re Being Equipped With
Guns</A></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">The Association of the United States Army's
annual conference this year featured a new product that was straight out of a
dystopian movie -- militarized quadrupedal </SPAN><A
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rel=noopener target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">robots</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"> with guns attached to them. As if our current weapons
of war aren't massively destructive enough,</SPAN><B> corporations are testing
out weaponizing their robotic dogs and discussing potential military contracts
for their use.</B></P>
<P><B>Sign now to demand Congress pass comprehensive legislation that makes it
illegal to arm robot dogs!</B></P>
<P><B>Machines do not see us as people, making arming them even more dangerous
than giving a gun to a human. </B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">We know that
unchecked technological development has the potential to replicate our worst
human social trends, with coders sounding the </SPAN><A
href="https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/" rel=noopener target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">alarm</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"> on how
facial recognition software is racist and A.I. able to learn dangerous
conspiracy theories. On top of that, war is already a dehumanizing act – putting
robots in charge without a human conscience has the potential to make killing
even easier.</SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Luckily, other well-known robotics
corporations -- including Boston Dynamics -- have strict policies against the
weaponization of the machines they produce. </SPAN><B>But we can't rely on the
benevolence of massively profitable companies, hoping that they will happen to
do the right thing. </B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">The government
</SPAN><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">must </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">act before this equipment is developed en
masse. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">We cannot allow this rapidly growing robotics
industry to continue production with so little regulation. </SPAN><B>Sign to
tell Congress to act now and pass comprehensive legislation to make arming
robots with weapons illegal! </B></P>
<P><B><I>Image taken from a YouTube video from The Independent.</I></B></P>
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<P><STRONG><EM>Sign Now:</EM></STRONG></P>
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