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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: 0.214s | source
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blackeyeblitzar ◴[04 Feb 25 20:49 UTC] No.42938399[source]▶
Other countries will use AI for weapons - shouldn’t the EU and US also do that to remain competitive?
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1. impossiblefork ◴[05 Feb 25 22:50 UTC] No.42956491[source]▶
Yes, but there should probably be some kind of separation between the AI weapons and surveillance parts and something having to do with providing communications and search services.

It's not really appropriate for an AI weapons firm to be an integrated part of something which has access to information from which sensitive information such political beliefs etc. can be easily extracted.

It's a problem if someone is looking at sensitive user data one day and at how to categorize people so they can be put on kill lists the other.