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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: 2.327s | source
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declan_roberts ◴[05 Feb 25 00:45 UTC] No.42941737[source]▶
Do Chinese or Russians have any such qualms? No or course not. They're diving head first into it.

Only in the United States do we have the privilege to pretend like we can ignore it.

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1. sangnoir ◴[05 Feb 25 00:47 UTC] No.42941766[source]▶
Plenty of US companies not named Google haven't had qualms about weapons development in decades. It's not about US vs China/Russia, it's about Google's culture.

Additionally, the US has been vociferous about limiting access to foreign tech companies with "military links" in China, so perhaps Google should be placed in that category by all non-Five-Eyes countries.