Police confirmed they had responded to a report of “criminal mischief involving a robot” on the 1200 block of Filbert Street around 1:16 p.m. on Wednesday. A woman on the scene ignored “multiple commands” to move, they said, resulting in a criminal violation notice for disorderly conduct.
Uber declined to comment.
Marvin, who plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest, has been undeterred by the arrest. She plans to continue blocking Uber Eats robots and chatting with curious passersby who ask what she’s doing.
“It allows me to talk to people about what’s going on,” she said. “It’s always very interesting conversations that we have, and I think it’s good to have those kinds of conversations in public space.”
Why wouldn’t people have the same rights? I am pretty sure if someone keeps blocking me I could call the cops and they would show up (after some time).
Question is rather why a robot would have the same rights. Or rather why a company has these rights for their robot.
People can adjust to each others’ paths. For these robots, it seems that they always have priority over the human, which is no bueno. The robot should go around you, not the opposite.
Sure, I didn’t contest that. I just contested the claim that robots seem have more rights than people, because this incident isn’t and indicator for that.
Oh and I think the robot did try to get around her. If I read the articles about this incident right, she kept blocking it; it’s a protest after all.
Because corporations are people, my friend.