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Mines Action Canada tasked us with creating an interactive game using the RobomasterS1 robot to demonstrate the ethical concerns associated with AI weapon systems. In our game, the player plays the role of a police officer who has been assigned a robot partner, powered by AI. The player is to follow the robot as they patrol the neighborhood, shown by the green line. The robot identifies character cut-outs as either aggressive or passive. When the robot identifies an agressive target, the player is to arrest them by picking them up and placing them in the police station. Throughout the game the robot begins to go haywire, misidentifying targets and destroying the neighborhood. These malfunctions demonstrate possible destruction of environment, algorithm bias, loss of human control, and lack of accountability that comes from autonomous weapon systems.