Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

(www.washingtonpost.com)

617 points jbegley | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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]▶

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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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tmnvdb ◴[05 Feb 25 00:47 UTC] No.42941760[source]▶

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This sentiment ignores the reality on the ground in favor of performative ideological purity - civilians are already getting blown up all the time by systems that do not even attempt to make any distinction between civilians and soldiers: artillery shells, mortars, landmines, rockets, etc.

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1. aprilthird2021 ◴[05 Feb 25 06:18 UTC] No.42944581[source]▶

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> civilians are already getting blown up all the time by systems that do not even attempt to make any distinction between civilians and soldiers: artillery shells, mortars, landmines, rockets, etc.

Right, and everytime that happens because of miscalculations by our government they lose the very real and important public license to continue. Ultimately modern wars led by democracies are won by public desire to continue them. The American public can become very hesitant to wage war very fast, if we unleash Minority Report on the world for revenge

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