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Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by RestlessMind on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:49AM (#18957962)
Who would you rather have it governed by? Facebook? Microsoft? Amazon? Wall Street? DARPA? US Govt? EU? China? Russia?

At an abstract level: any organization, run by humans, with a lot of power over critical aspects of our life is bound to get corrupted due to that power. Its just that some organizations are less bad than others. And I believe Google isn't much worse than many other realistic alternatives.

Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by lainga on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:37AM (#18958175)
That's a false, uh, decachotomy (?), it doesn't have to be a centralized organization of any kind at all
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by RestlessMind on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:58PM (#18972390)
It doesn't have to be, but things seem to be inevitably gravitating towards a centralized model because it seems people care the most about their User Experience and everything else is secondary (privacy, monopoly, monoculture, worker abuse, etc).
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by iaml on Monday January 21, 2019 @05:34AM (#18959339)
The word you are looking for is dichotomy.
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by egman_ekki on Monday January 21, 2019 @05:49AM (#18959400)
I think the parent commenter wanted to emphasize that there are more than 2 options (di- = 2, deca- = 10) to choose from...
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by iaml on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:46AM (#18961528)
But false decachotomy would imply there are more than 10 options. Seems weirdly specific.
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by rexpop on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:05AM (#18958020)
Such an organization, designed to respect input from consumers, workers, and global community members affected by negative externalities might be called a "co-op."
Re:Google launches an AI contest for social good by cazum on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:13AM (#18958055)
It's a matter of oversight, transparency, accountability and motivation. In the case of Google, they have very little oversight, nearly zero transparency, they are accountable to only their shareholders, and their motives are exclusively profit.

They have no interest, or even means of producing, a publically good internet. They can and will only produce an internet that is best suited to make them money. And with that there will be inherent conflicts with what is best for the users.

At least with a government you get some of the transparency and oversight, public control and no profit motive (if you cap campaign financing that is)

Some organization structures are better suited to do different things.