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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by cjhanks on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:37PM (#16760359)
So it is ethical to track hundreds of millions of people to manipulate them for profit. But unethical to defend power plants in the United States?
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by mashedvikings on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:39PM (#16761568)
It's also unethical to solve world hunger by feeding the poor to the hungry. If defending is done not by installing firewalls, but by spying on everyone in case they do something bad, you have a huge problem.
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