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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by titzer on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:11PM (#16756758)
Well the project "uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes."

That's a direct application of tech to killing people, not some abstract network or compiler tech. There's a big difference.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by hulahoof on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:26AM (#16762662)
The flip side is better targeting should result in less collateral deaths
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