If Google does a better job of defining who should be killed, and it siphons money into the Bay Area, why shouldn’t we be supportive of google’s involvement?

I agree that perhaps we shouldn’t blow people up overseas, but at least while we are at it, why not make the best decisions to avoid killing the wrong people?

We're not talking about killing imminent threats for self-defense. We're not talking about bombing military targets in a legal war. We're talking about remote drone strikes against poorly defined "non state actors", typically in civilian areas.

Maybe we shouldn't try to legitimise it and abdicate the moral responsibility to a computer. Maybe we shouldn't mislead drone operators by showing them a popup stat "this blob you're looking at has been identified as a valid target with 90% confidence" so they feel better when pushing the button.

If we were talking about space lasers that make an individual person's head explode and high res camera footage you might have a point. But we're literally talking about lobbing bombs at people in public spaces and doing so based on grainy low res data.

The last thing we need is more talking points to justify this.

Extrajudicial killings are cool, as long as they are profitable for the Bay Area because the one thing the Bay Area is missing is.. money? Jesus..

>I agree that perhaps we shouldn’t blow people up overseas, but at least while we are at it, why not make the best decisions to avoid killing the wrong people?

I think you have to begin a little further back in the logic train than that state-sponsored murder for hire with the help of closed-source algorithms is legitimate or acceptable.

Or. You know. Stop killing people for oil?

I think that oil was the main cause of wars in world during the last decades. And it is one of the rare subjects where people can act with their wallet: choose EV each time you can, do not use oil for heating.

Just don't forget to implement the counting of false positives. The current system doesn't work well, given that US still counts al-Mansoura as 30 ISIS fighters killed and not 150 IDPs as per the independent UN commission investigation.