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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: 0.225s | 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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ckrapu ◴[04 Feb 25 23:18 UTC] No.42940656[source]▶
There is a wide range of moral and practical opinions between the statement “all weapons are evil” and “global corporations ought not to develop autonomous weapons”.
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cortesoft ◴[04 Feb 25 23:55 UTC] No.42941137[source]▶
Who should develop autonomous weapons?
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IIAOPSW ◴[05 Feb 25 00:08 UTC] No.42941302[source]▶
Who should develop biological weapons? Chemical weapons? Nuclear weapons?

Ideally no one, and if the cost / expertise is so niche that only a handful of sophisticated actors could possibly actually do it, then in fact (by way of enforceable treaty) no one.

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1. kelsey98765431 ◴[05 Feb 25 13:02 UTC] No.42947911[source]▶
If we hadn't developed nuclear weapons we would still be burning coal and probably even closer to death from global warming. The answer here is government contractors should be developing the various type of weapon as they are, people just do not think of google as a government contractor for some reason.