RoboticsMedium
Remotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US
- Occurred
- Jun 1, 2022
- Published
- Jun 6, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Axon Enterprise considered development of remotely operated drones capable of tasering at a target a short distance away as a defense mechanism for mass shootings, despite its internal AI ethics board’s previous objection and condemnation as dangerous and fantastical.
Developers
- Axon Enterprise
Deployers
- none
Harmed parties
- Schools
- Educational communities
- Students
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Proposal involves armed drones (robotics) with internal ethics board objections, but no actual deployment or harm occurred.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8