Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

If you work for big tech now, you’re working for a defense contractor, no different to Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.

Ultimately every sufficiently large company seems to become an arms dealer, a drug dealer or a bank.

We need look no further than Lavender [1] to see where this ends up.

[1]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

I have been pondering about such subject over the past weeks. Maybe one could compare it to people who worked for Allianz, Audi, Bayer, BMW, IBM and others before 1945.

> If you work for big tech now, you’re working for a defense contractor, no different to Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.

The difference is about 250k/yr. Kinda big.