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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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