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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by mtgx on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:32AM (#17202578)
Good thing they removed all mentions of that from their workers' code of conduct then, no? They really dodged a bullet there (get it?)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-dont-be-evil/

Moral compass out of sight, out of mind, is probably what the leadership must have been thinking, especially after the recent protest against Maven from a few thousand employees (which seems to have resulted only in the leadership trying to appease them by promising some secret bullshit "ethics rules")

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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by joshuamorton on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:38AM (#17202617)
Except they didn't, it's still in the code of conduct ;)
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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by mtgx on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:44AM (#17202650)
It used to be a central piece. Now it barely gets a "Oh, and don't be evil guys, k?" mention in the very last line.
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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by joshuamorton on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:51AM (#17202683)
"removed all mention" is entirely false though.

And while I don't particularly care for this change, calling the concluding sentence of a document "a passing mention" feels forced. I would agree it's been deemphasized and should be mentioned more, but a concluding sentence is pretty central to a document. It's meant to sum up the entire document.

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