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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by zython on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:11PM (#16756109)
there is no inherent reason that these technologies need to be developed by the military, they could just as well be developed for civilian use when given the funding.

also it is not surprising that these things are invented by the dod when you're spending ~600-700 bilion a year on warfare and intelligence operations.

That last sentence of yours rubs me kinda the wrong way; that is a dangerious premise that could set us back ~30 years when the cold war and the arms race was well and alive, but this time we'd have robots and AI

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by galieos_ghost on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:16PM (#16756169)
China is currently heavily funding genetically engineering geniuses and AI. The US can either wake up or sit around and wait to be subjugated via an autonomous drone swarm developed by 250IQ Chinese scientists
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by GordonS on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:15PM (#16757381)
I... hope this is sarcasm?
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