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he “City of Love” — San Francisco — seems like the last place you’d expect to find “killer police robots” surveilling the streets. Yet, in December, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to allow armed bots to join the police department’s bomb disposal arsenal. Not surprisingly, everyone who has ever watched — or any of a hundred other dystopian sci-fi movies — objected. reports that 44 community and civil rights groups, including the ACLU,

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