Whenever "Don't be evil" comes up, I can't help but think of this (nearly decade old) tweet [1]:

> Google motto 2004: Don't be evil

> Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define

> Google motto 2013: We make military robots

[1]: https://twitter.com/BrentButt/status/412700627152961536

I wonder how many people those military robots have killed, maimed, enslaved, removed the rights from, etc, in the past 9 years?

Implying military robots are inherently evil is like implying that punching someone in the nose is inherently evil. Context is important. If I punch a random person in the nose, maybe I am evil. If I punch a person in the nose who randomly punched me in the nose, I wouldn't consider myself evil.

A military robot designed for US - the country that has more troops in war zones around the world than anybody else (indeed, than everybody else combined!) - is practically guaranteed to be used for something inherently evil.

Then so is designing kitchen knives for humans, who have more homicides, than any other species.

It should have been 'Don't be so naive'