Incident #207·Human-Computer Interaction
Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment
Description
Honolulu Police Department spent federal pandemic relief funds on a robot dog to take body temperatures and patrol a homeless quarantine encampment which local civil rights advocates criticized as dehumanizing.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- honolulu-police-department
Alleged Developers
- boston-dynamics
Harmed Parties
- honolulu-homeless-people
Classification
Risk Domain
Human-Computer InteractionRisk Subdomain
5.2. Loss of human agency and autonomy
MIT Risk Profile
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Source
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