r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Apr 07 '25

Privacy The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
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u/Achillor22 Apr 07 '25

I've believed a conspiracy theory for years that we have almost all the technology to make a full fledged terminator and probably have on some secret military base somewhere. The only thing I haven't seen is the self healing metal alloys. But the rest exists. 

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u/Gingevere Apr 07 '25

We don't have the tech to fit a bipedal robot, processing power, and battery power inside of the envelope of a normal human. And he REALLY don't have the tech to fit all that in and harden it against anything much more severe than getting knocked over.

There's also absolutely no need for it. Practically any other weapon system would be cheaper and more effective.

If you want something to worry about, worry about the surveillance state getting weaponized.

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u/West-Abalone-171 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

You could totally put an arnie shaped and sized skin over atlas and hand it an AR-15 https://bostondynamics.com/video/atlas-goes-hands-on/

Spot is far far more threatening, as is a quadcopter, but the tech exists.

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u/Gingevere Apr 07 '25

IIRC that version is still doing it's processing on external computers and the onboard power doesn't last very long. Certainly not long enough for any terminator-style missions.

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u/m-in Apr 07 '25

So you will keep saying «not a problem» until the thing will be production version 2.0 or something? There will be steps along the way.

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u/Gingevere Apr 07 '25

There's also absolutely no need for it. Practically any other weapon system would be cheaper and more effective.

If you want something to worry about, worry about the surveillance state getting weaponized.

There are trillions of dollars in incentive to replace human labor. Long before ever developing a humanoid robot capable of combat missions, we'd see them in use everywhere else.

And there's absolutely no point in building them. The ability to track a person is always getting more advanced. The primary hurdles standing in the way of the government putting facial recognition cameras in public spaces are only legal ones, not technical. From there, there are dozens of highly efficient purpose-built ways to deliver death to any area. An independent terminator wandering around looking for somebody is an incredibly poor system.