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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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617 points jbegley | 2 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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uejfiweun ◴[04 Feb 25 23:26 UTC] No.42940754[source]▶
Dollar short and a day late. The future of the US tech industry belongs to those who weren't interested in performative woke nonsense like this during the last decade.
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aprilthird2021 ◴[05 Feb 25 00:14 UTC] No.42941376[source]▶
How is it woke nonsense to not want to create a weapon that probabilistically determines if a civilian looks close enough like a bad guy to missle strike them?
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captainbland ◴[05 Feb 25 00:29 UTC] No.42941543[source]▶
Or better yet, misinterpret who the target is even supposed to be because of a hallucination.
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1. worik ◴[05 Feb 25 00:41 UTC] No.42941687[source]▶
> Or better yet, misinterpret who the target is even supposed to be because of a hallucination.

Who, in that business, cares?

AI will provide a fig leaf for the indiscriminate large scale killing that is regularly done since the start of industrialised warfare.

Using robots spare drone pilots from PTSD

From the perspective of the murderous thugs that run our nations (way way before the current bunch of plainly bonkers ones in the USA), what is not to like?

Whilst there are all sorts of quibbles about weapons generally being evil, this is evil.

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2. captainbland ◴[05 Feb 25 01:13 UTC] No.42942060[source]▶
AI driven drones in particular seem like ideal tools for carrying out a genocide: identify an ethnicity based off some physical characteristics, kill. No paperwork, no transport, no human conscience. Just manufacture, deploy and instruct at scale. Sure, it might get it wrong sometimes but you've got to break a few eggs...