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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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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]▶
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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uejfiweun ◴[05 Feb 25 01:30 UTC] No.42942262[source]▶
Because "not wanting" to do something that would make the company money due to moral considerations that aren't shared by your competitors is idiotic.
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aprilthird2021 ◴[05 Feb 25 06:19 UTC] No.42944592[source]▶
Ah, the Nuremberg Defense
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uejfiweun ◴[05 Feb 25 08:53 UTC] No.42945830[source]▶
Lol, is that all you people can ever come up with? "I disagree, therefore you're a Nazi?" Hasn't the events of the past 6 months shown you that this dumb "gotcha" style debating doesn't work?
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1. aprilthird2021 ◴[07 Feb 25 12:35 UTC] No.42971860{3}[source]▶
I couldn't do anything because of "moral considerations" my peers don't share. That's literally the Nuremberg Defense. Maybe pointing this out doesn't "work" but it is true. Do what you will with that, I'm not here to "work" on you or anything like that. You're a free person, as am I