A RoboCop, a park and a fight : How expectations about robots are clashing with reality
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/robocop-park-fight-how-expectations-about-robots-are-clashing-reality-n1059
When Cogo Guebara pressed a button on a robot to call the police, she was instead instructed to “step out of the way.” When a fight broke out recently in the parking lot of Salt Lake Park, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, Cogo Guebara did what seemed the most practical thing at the time : she ran over to the park’s police robot to push its emergency alert button. “I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’” Guebara said. “It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept (...)