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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: 0.271s | 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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ziddoap ◴[04 Feb 25 23:19 UTC] No.42940666[source]▶
>all weapons are evil

That wasn't the quote that was removed. Not even close, really.

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astrange ◴[04 Feb 25 23:36 UTC] No.42940904[source]▶
It's definitely an opinion Google employees had in the last decade.

Actually I think a lot of people have it - just yesterday I saw someone on reddit claim Google was evil because it was secretly founded by the US military. And they were American. That's their military!

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jjj123 ◴[04 Feb 25 23:52 UTC] No.42941091[source]▶
It’s my military too and I believe the US military does many, many evil things that I want no part of.
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1. astrange ◴[05 Feb 25 01:15 UTC] No.42942082[source]▶
I think the thing to remember is, however bad it is, it could always get worse.

A world without the US navy is one without sea shipping because pirates will come back.