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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by daveFNbuck on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:20AM (#17194327)
It might have to do with how finding objects in imagery is directly tied to killing people. Human beings tend to not like being involved in killing other human beings.
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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by pnw_hazor on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:21AM (#17196965)
or directly tied to reducing the chances of killing innocent people.

Better or smarter imaging/targeting makes these weapons safer, not more dangerous.

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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by more_corn on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:35PM (#17200521)
No, the project was to prevent humans from having to slog through hours of footage to find vehicle tracks. This makes it easier, faster and cheaper to kill them. Not a super good use of our greatest technology. Let's keep it manual, expensive and slow. The alternative is terrifying efficient killing machines.
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Re:How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google by daveFNbuck on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:59AM (#17197317)
You assume that we're not willing to kill innocent people once we've identified a target near them. This also depends on who's being targeted. I'm not comfortable with Trump being able to murder anyone on the globe with pinpoint accuracy.
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