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 Demiurge on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:19AM (#16761737)

The engineers in both cases are not essential to the outcomes. Engineers or craftsmen, or any other workers execute tasks put forth to them by society that gave them birth and education. Any person in the society has some influence, but clearly more influence is the hands of the leaders and organizers.

But, there is power in organizing, or unionizing, for collective bargaining.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by cmontella on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:26AM (#16761763)

This reminds me of the movie "Cube", which is about a sadistic torture chamber built by accident through a network of government sub-contractors who each built some innocuous part of the thing, which was then assembled through layers of opaque bureaucracy. It's a terrible film, but I always thought that premise was hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by bobthepanda on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:22AM (#16761747)

That defense didn’t work at Nuremberg.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by Demiurge on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:25AM (#16764659)

It's not a defense. It doesn't absolve anyone of personal responsibility.

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