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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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617 points jbegley | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.352s | source
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tmnvdb ◴[04 Feb 25 23:14 UTC] No.42940589[source]▶
Good, this idea that all weapons are evil is an insane luxury belief.
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darth_avocado ◴[04 Feb 25 23:41 UTC] No.42940977[source]▶
Weapons inherently aren’t evil, which is why everyone has kitchen knives. People use weapons to do evil.

The problem with building AI weapons is that eventually it will be in the hands of people who are morally bankrupt and therefore will use them to do evil.

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1. gerdesj ◴[05 Feb 25 00:14 UTC] No.42941379[source]▶
Who is to say a wielder of a kitchen knife is not "morally bankrupt" - whatever that means.

In my garage, I have some pretty nasty "weapons" - notably a couple of chainsaws, some drills, chisels, lump/sledge/etc hammers and a fencing maul! The rest are merely: mildly malevolent.

You don't need an AI (whatever that means) to get medieval on someone. On the bright side the current state of AI (whatever that means) is largely bollocks.

Sadly, LLMs have and will be wired up to drones and the results will be unpredictable.