Europol predicts a 2035 with no privacy, robot police, robots displacing workers, debates about "robot rights" and criminals commanding hundreds of drones simultaneously
2026-03-22 16:58 UTC
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@Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 2026-03-22 17:29
2035? I'd have argued most of these things are *already* here or at least trivially close... no privacy - Corporate overlords have been declaring us "post-privacy" for a looooong-ass time, and Governments and their enforcers have been chomping at the bit for at least as long, because they want in on the game robot cops - Palantir Gotham plus semi-autonomous drones; It's a question of degree, not of when. robots displacing workers - Has literally been happening for more than half a century; The current LLM bullshit is going to give it another push, obviously. robot rights - Well, *are* LLM companies just violating copyright or are LLMs simply ordinary artists that learn by looking at other folks art, just like their human forebears? (It doesn't matter what you think, it matters what we as society ultimately make of that and I wouldn't be optimistic) criminals with hundreds of drones - They've been running humongous botnets for decades; If they see a business case for doing something drone-wise in meatspace they'll absofuckinglutely do so today rather than tomorrow, and maybe they already are and we're just not aware because it's still flying under the radar. If you aren't expecting some variation of full-on Cyberpunk right now I honestly don't know what you're waiting for...
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@brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-22 17:11
I don't know... I feel the world has become so strange after covid.
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@Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 2026-03-23 02:25
Sounds like somebody at Europol just had a blast playing Detroit Become Human.
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@queermunist@lemmy.ml 2026-03-22 17:11
I guess they don't realize we're in the early stages of WW3.
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@m532@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-22 22:24
Surely they're gonna build a robot police force with no oil, no gallium, and no robot factories. I predict a 2035 with no europe. (Although I do like the idea of being a criminal commanding hundreds of robots. The republican space cops with their slave armies and idealism magic would hate me. CIS ftw.)
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@ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-22 17:09
It's time for another carrington event!
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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 18:45
How about not allowing systemic use, of objects equipped with public-facing image sensors (including stationary cameras)? It is beyond worrisome, regulations advocated for, align with those introduced in the US, with regards to: drones, 3D printing, and open-source firmware running them. I'm so sick and tired of the crime and terrorism motive, and the shameless hypocrisy involved: if there's excessive crime and terrorism, it's probably the result of systemic failure (the wealth gap and foreign policy). All technology like this does, is suppress the underlying problems, and perpetuate a clearly dysfunctional system, that disproportionately benefits a privileged minority (including those shoveling the technology). I don't need accustomization to, or instruction on such systems; and I'm especially uninterested, in being fear mongered into acceptance. Instead, I'd rather live with the **hypothetical**, of being struck by a kamikaze drone, than the **certainty** of government sensors surveilling me (supposedly as a byproduct, for protection against the hypothetical), through: (swarms of) drones (patrolling the skies), high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS), passive acoustic masts (mapping every micro-rotor within a kilometer), microwave point-defense pods (concealed in sidewalk bollards and street lights), Internet of Things (IoT) devices anywhere (from underground areas to cities, rural areas and even oceans), or legally wiretapped devices (possibly "social" robots). The following dystopian lines say it all: "satellites, artificial intelligence, open-source intelligence, and real-time surveillance have transformed modern conflict zones into what is now being called the transparent battlefield, and maybe this expression is equally relevant for society in general, the transparent society"; emphasized later by: "the technology will also bring a more transparent operating environment where few things stay hidden". But "the public must trust law enforcement to use these technologies effectively and accountably"...
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@timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-23 00:26
I’d like to watch the full length video. The link doesn’t work obviously. Can you point me in the right direction?
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@IratePirate@feddit.org 2026-03-23 15:12
All of your links (apart from the PDF) are broken, mate.
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@maplesaga@lemmy.world 2026-03-23 19:20
Whats the alternative, let China and Russia build up the technology and we stay in the past? The US has the largest military because its the reserve currency, they print money and export their inflation and they spend that money on military expenditures, which prevents people from moving off USD. This then lets them sanction other countries and control the worlds shipping lanes, so asking them to stop developing their military is asking for the existing global order to cease to exist, and then you're at the whims of whatever power fills that void.