Incident 207: Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment

Description: Honolulu Police Department spent federal pandemic relief funds on a robot dog to take body temperatures and patrol a homeless quarantine encampment which local civil rights advocates criticized as dehumanizing.

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Alleged: Boston Dynamics developed an AI system deployed by Honolulu Police Department, which harmed Honolulu homeless people.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
207
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2021-01-10
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.