Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots Can Prevent Future Crime – Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company’s Optimus robot could follow people around and prevent them from committing crimes.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-robots-prevent-future-crime-11028660
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“If you say, like, you now get a free Optimus and it’s just gonna follow you around and stop you from doing crime, but other than that you get to do anything. It’s just gonna stop you from committing crime, that’s really it,” Musk said on stage at the Tesla shareholder meeting on November 6.
Musk’s comments reflect his growing vision for artificial intelligence and robotics to reshape society.
However, his suggestion that Optimus robots could one day prevent crime raises ethical and practical concerns, including questions about surveillance, personal freedom and how the robots would physically intervene against humans.
Such a dipshit. Didnt he also say robots can end poverty? LOL
elon probably just finished watching minority report
There’s no way this could end badly. Another great idea from Elon. I can’t wait for robots to follow me around suspecting I’m going great to commit a crime at some point.
That’s why he wanted leverage over his robot army via his one trillion paycheck.
He literally wants an “I, Robot” – scenario, but he is in control and not an AI. Lunatic.
If a small child pitched this you would give their hair a tussle and tell them to go outside and kick a ball till teatime, fully grown adult? here, have a trillion dollay pay-promise.
How are people taken in by this fruitcake?
Haha rich people hate normal people so fucking much
“Also, criticizing me and not working 90 hours a week for me is a crime.”
Maybe his robots will be the ICE army sooner than we think…
So Elon just saying shit again. It is a stupid idea and it will never happen.
Yeah sure, crimes like free speech, being a progressist and wanting to end billionaires..
Criminals wont buy a robot to follow them around.
People will not buy a robot that can break their neck when it hallucinates a crime.
Is it going to smack the ketamine out of his hands?
His biggest blind spot is human emotion. So many of us will never give one of his companies a dime as long as he benefits financially. So he has to pivot his car company to a taxi and robot company. What he doesn’t get is all those people who won’t buy a Tesla will take a Waymo over a robotaxi any day and NOBODY is going to trust and all seeing, all listening machine that could overpower you that is at the beck and call of an unstable, arrogant, lying, drug addict with well documented impulse control issues.
Tesla is a meme stock at this point, so it will survive for a while, but it’s essentially dead already. Too bad… I was rooting for Tesla until Elon went full fascist.
Hey bot, let’s go into this metal cage, it looks fun. Please inspect every corner of it for illegal items, while I check the exterior.
Pretty sure I’d commit a crime if a robot is following me around
This is straight up copied from Iain M. Banks’ [“Culture” science fiction novels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series).
In his books, it’s called a [slap-drone](https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone). A hyper-advanced society controls crime by assigning a super-human drone to follow those who are convicted of crimes around 24 hours a day, and just gently stopping them from doing it ever again. In every other respect, the convict is free to live however they want.
Thus rendering the whole idea of a penal/corrections system obsolete.
But that’s science fiction, not reality.
I now know that rich people don’t watch movies. Cause every sci-fi movie i know with a robot workforce all start like this
And how long till someone hacks one into their personal crime side kick.
Query: Master, should I dispose of the meatbags preventing your larceny?
So the robots will act like 24/7 probation officers?
My new company idea
Personal short range emp devices
Elon is a dumb guy’s version of a genius. It’s obvious he’s a fucking con full of shit and smoke, but conservatives are too gullible to call him out.
Crime rate is the lowest on 30 years, but yeah spend more money on the no crime, maybe invent new crimes to fill the places lost from the professional punishment class.
My crime almost certainly would be punching the robot in its stupid face.
Right because criminals would never harm a robot and would allow it to follow them right up to the point they’d commit a crime…
Someone should point out Elon, since he is so out of touch with reality, that this isn’t North Korea
We could get rid of Elon and the tech bros and crime would drop 50% at least
He can’t even produce a car that doesn’t break down and he wants to build an army of robots?
Robo… cops?
How many seconds do I get before I have to comply?
great — let’s get one to follow Trump and his whole family, and Musk, and ICE agents, and every priest, and everyone who owns a gun
How much longer before it turns out he’s built the murder ships from Captain America the winter soldier?
stalker robots wasn’t on my bingo card for the day.
Does it also have a weight loss mode where it follows you around playing a tuba in a mocking manner?
“Citizen, cease your graffiti spray paint usage on that wall, I have contacted the author….no, do not spray paint my camera. No, do not push me into the pond. No…”
Step 1: Elon buys Open Compute and rebrands OCP into a robotics consortium.
Step 2: Elon creates many varieties of robot police. Finally going public with Elon Design 209.
Step 3: Elon creates a cyborg police prototype.
Step 4: Robocip hits the streets and throws Elon out a window at OCP headquarters for being a criminal.
This man is not well. The drugs really addled his brain.
I was gonna post some meme about how sad and lame Elon is, but my Tesla bot reminded me that it’s a crime.
If the first robot disappears after following me to a recycling yard, will they send another?
Oh man I can’t wait to see how public clankers get treated compared to rental electric scooters.
Yesssss….perfect, avoid paying living wages, stifling access to affordable health care and education – just have half million dollar humanoid robots following people around out of some dystopian hellscape.
Hear me out…if we just had everybody live in individual locked cells with 24/7 video surveillance, we could eliminate all crime!
Have people not watched I robot? Or anything else where there are sentient computers interacting with humans?
It doesn’t end well for the humans