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 lsc on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:02AM (#16762224)

I think you're taking the idea too far. look at what the civil engineers have:

https://www.asce.org/code-of-ethics/

Yes, yes, we have a responsibility to not defraud people, and to not work on obviously evil projects, and even to speak out if your employer is, say, building a bridge that is not up to the clearly defined, established standards. (which is super different from when you think a bridge will collapse, but can't explain why in a way that other people can understand. This parenthetical part is particularly important, I think.)

But we are free humans, and if we want to waste our lives on trivial things, so long as those trivial things don't hurt others, that's our choice. We are humans, and humans need entertainment, we need play.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by unclebucknasty on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:18AM (#16763723)

>look at what the civil engineers have

Well, that's a narrow view of ethical guidelines in conducting one's work. We all generally agree that people shouldn't be evil.

My question sits above that. Is it enough for a moral society to simply decline to do evil? Or do we have a responsibility beyond that? And if it's the latter, then whose responsibility is it?

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by lsc on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:31PM (#16766376)

Declining to do evil, with real standards for what that means is, at the very least, a good first step, and a possible one.

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