I think it’s fair that she gets sued. Whether the arrest was really necessary I don’t know. You wouldn’t stand in front of a train or a truck and expect not getting legal problems with that. You are disrupting traffic and a legal and civil business.

If her point is, according to the article, to protest “corporations that displace human delivery workers in order to enrich their own bottom line”, I fully understand her, even if I am not convinced of her method.

Robots are awesome cool tech that could make everybody’s lifes better. But their increasing deployment must come with legal and societal guardrails. Especially, we need to develop societies worldwide such that they are prepared and have solutions for the disruption of low-skilled labour markets.

Delivery robots are just the beginning. This will continue and progressively creep up the labour skill levels.

I would love to see a world where nobody has to work, because it is no longer necessary. But jobs become increasingly ineffective as the primary wealth distribution system. Robots and AI do not pair well with present capitalistic societies. This demands fundamental systematic changes in socio-economic structures.