Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by sireat on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:31AM (#17203833)

Working for military by building superior exo-skeletons and armor/weapons for soldiers as well as gear carrying robot-dogs is pretty okay if one realizes the need for military.

Then these soldiers go on site in another country risk their lives and take out specific bad guys without shooting too many bystanders.

You can then argue whether those were really bad guys and whether that specific operation needed to be carried out.

Building drones which are controlled remotely(or even worse by AI) to kill a wedding with kids where possibly a few people were the bad guys is NOT OK.

Drones facilitate political/military cop-outs.

For extra credit you can watch a few seasons of Homeland. Sure it is fiction but the issues are there.

To reiterate: even if you support working for military there is difference on what kind of weapons you work on

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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by grigjd3 on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:03AM (#17205395)

I agree that there is a difference on what kind of weapon one works on. I clearly view chemical weapons as both horrible to use and useless as a deterrent. However, I can't claim I have the moral authority to dictate what falls across the line with perfection. Thus I am not going to judge other people's decisions with such passion.

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