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: 0.257s | source

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daft_pink ◴[04 Feb 25 22:35 UTC] No.42940027[source]▶

I feel like we’re just in that period of Downtown Abbey where everyone is waiting for the World War I to start. Everyone can feel that it’s coming and no one can do anything about it.

Reality is in a war between the West vs Russia/Iran/North Korea/China whomever we end up fighting, we’re going to do whatever we can so the Western civilization and soldiers survive and win.

Ultimately Google is a western company and if war breaks out not supporting our civilization/military is going to be wildly unpopular and turn them into a pariah and anything to the contrary was never going to happen.

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iteratethis ◴[04 Feb 25 22:45 UTC] No.42940173[source]▶

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The reason war may be coming is because the West is falling apart. The US is isolating itself and bullying its allies. Alternative powers wanting to do something expansive never had a better moment in time to do so.

There was no war forthcoming between an integrated West and any other power. War is coming because there no longer is a West.

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1. daft_pink ◴[05 Feb 25 02:23 UTC] No.42942805[source]▶

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The reasons are not the main focus here. The fact is that China's aggressive stance on Taiwan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the alignment with China, North Korea, and Iran are leading to military buildups and alliances worldwide. Google, being a company founded and controlled by Americans, is likely to support the effort if a war occurs, rather than remain passive while their friends and family's children are dying.

Today people have differing views of nuclear weapons, but people who fought near Japan and survived believe the bomb saved their life.

It's easy to pretend you don't have a sides when there is peace, but in this environment google's going to take a side.

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