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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: 0s | source
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legohead ◴[04 Feb 25 23:31 UTC] No.42940837[source]▶
I pledge to not drink coffee.

drinks coffee

Nevermind.

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1. wongarsu ◴[05 Feb 25 00:42 UTC] No.42941693[source]▶
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I pledge to not drink coffee

Somebody hands me coffee

I retract the pledge and start drinking

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I have to wonder what the value of a pledge is if you can just stop pledging something at the earliest convenience, do the thing, and people cheer you on for it