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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

(www.washingtonpost.com)
617 points jbegley | 4 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
1. zoogeny ◴[04 Feb 25 21:46 UTC] No.42939301[source]▶
It's a far cry from the days where employees were threatening to mass quit Google when it changed its policies to avoid bans in China.

A lot of what is going on in the world right now makes me think we are in a war that hasn't yet been officially acknowledged.

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2. yodsanklai ◴[04 Feb 25 21:52 UTC] No.42939394[source]▶
I have a lot of respect for people who would resign, or wouldn't work in such companies.
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3. zoogeny ◴[04 Feb 25 22:53 UTC] No.42940291[source]▶
Me too, it is just a shame that the path from earning respect to eating bread isn't as straight forward in our current world as the path from earning money.
4. tommiegannert ◴[05 Feb 25 06:58 UTC] No.42944882[source]▶
> makes me think we are in a war

Dr Pippa Malmgren (political advisor) also pushes the idea that WW3 is on-going, and it will look nothing like WW2. She appears on podcasts once in a while and has a blog. Not sure if I care for calling it a war if it doesn't look like a war, but there sure are human conflicts all over the little ball of life now.