Re:Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI p...
by thirduncle on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @01:52PM
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No government will allow its companies (and in this context that's how it's seen) to sell weapons to countries they don't approve of.
What the poster meant was "just about any country" in the world. Which we've seen happen time and time again - the restrictions may be nominally in place (for a while), but eventually they get selectively lifted, and/or the companies find a way to circumvent them.
At times (and not at all surprisingly) with the assistance of certain government agencies chartered with the purpose of not only enacting precisely this kind of subterfuge - but perfecting it as an art.
Re:Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI p...
by jcbrand on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @01:54PM
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Doesn't really matter that much, AFAIK all (most?) western countries sell to Saudi Arabia for instance.
Re:Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI p...
by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:00PM
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Even if a firm in country A can sell only to group of countries X, another firm in country B might be able to sell to group of countries Y. All you really need is a few companies with overlapping markets to eventually bring such tech to the entire world.
This is never true. No government will allow its companies (and in this context that's how it's seen) to sell weapons to countries they don't approve of. That said, apparently the defense industry is often irresponsible at best.