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> as long as it’s used responsibly

At what point can we decide that people in positions of power are not and will not ever be responsible enough to handle this technology?

Surely as a society we shouldn’t continue to naively assume that police are “responsible” like we’ve assumed in the past?

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Agreed, I'm not saying we can currently assume they are responsible, but in some hypothetical future where reforms have been made and they can be trusted, I think it would be fine to use. I don't think we should use current bad actors to decide that a technology is completely off limits in the future.

> Surely as a society we shouldn’t continue to naively assume that police are “responsible” like we’ve assumed in the past?

Of course we shouldn't assume it, but we absolutely should require it.

Uncertainty is a core part of policing which can't be removed.

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