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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by thefounder on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:04AM (#19542815)
And what's new here? Any technology can be used both ways.
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by coldtea on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:19AM (#19542925)
Well, you can kill someone with a lawnmower if you try enough, sure.

But some technologies are more apt to be used in bad ways than others, and more nightmarish in the uses they enable.

(E.g. nuclear technology, in the form of bombs, can enable total annihilation of the planet. Glass-making technology, not so much -- what, we'll fill the planet with jars?)

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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by randon on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:08AM (#19542848)
yes, no news, you can use ai for bad or good things, guns to save people from bad people or do bad things etc..
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by thefounder on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:48AM (#19543167)
Guns are a bit different because they are designed to kill. I fail to see how you can save lives with machine guns unless you are in a war zone
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by dec0dedab0de on Monday April 01, 2019 @12:14PM (#19544886)
I fail to see how you can save lives with machine guns unless you are in a war zone

Being attacked by a pack of wild animals. Not that I care about the politics, but it immediately jumped into my mind.

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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by thefounder on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:16AM (#19561181)
Do you really need machine guns to scare off a pack of wild animals ?
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by Harry_T_Esticle on Monday April 01, 2019 @12:37PM (#19545170)
Defending against a [lynch] mob
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