From Issie Lapowsky's 6-6-22 PROTOCOL article entitled "Axon AI Ethics Board Members Resign Over Plans for Taser Drones":
Nine members of the AI ethics board for police technology company Axon have resigned after the company said it would develop drones equipped with Tasers despite the board's earlier opposition.
Axon
CEO Rick Smith proposed Taser drones as a possible answer to school
shootings, even after the majority of Axon's AI board voted against a
plan to pilot Taser drones with law enforcement. “We all feel the
desperate need to do something to address our epidemic of mass
shootings. But Axon’s proposal to elevate a tech-and-policing response
when there are far less harmful alternatives, is not the solution," the
resigning board members wrote in a statement....
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