Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by darawk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:03PM (#16760148)

Yes, they made some bad choices, and then they corrected them. They also funded the research that created the field. Things can be morally mixed. On balance though, the US military funding for cryptography has been pretty clearly a good thing.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by marricks on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:21PM (#16760946)

I love how any defense of US military history often boils down to, “sure they did terrible things in the past, but we definitely learned from them.”

I’m sure people have been saying that for decades if not centuries. Terrible things just get declassified slowly so we only learn about them later.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by darawk on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:09AM (#16762552)

You realize that the US military is the reason the world isn't ruled by Hitler and/or Stalin, right?

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