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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: 0s | 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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dark_glass ◴[05 Feb 25 00:11 UTC] No.42941331[source]▶
"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us"
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switchbak ◴[05 Feb 25 00:33 UTC] No.42941594{3}[source]▶
And these same organizations fuel conflicts that actively make the USA less safe. These organizations can both do great things (hostage rescues) and terrible things (initiating coups), and it’s upon the citizenry to ensure that these forces are put to use only where justified. That is to say almost never.
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astrange ◴[05 Feb 25 00:59 UTC] No.42941901{4}[source]▶
We've stopped South American coups more recently than we've initiated them. (in the last few years, in Brazil and Bolivia)
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1. switchbak ◴[05 Feb 25 21:00 UTC] No.42955052{5}[source]▶
Truly, the last few minutes of American history is not material to the argument I’m making here.

And I don’t doubt there’s still a lot of subterfuge happening as we speak, most of which we’ll never hear about until something goes very wrong.