Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts

Re:Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military ... by nunez on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:59AM (#41328629)

A) this is absolutely not gonna happen; fed contracts are huge, sticky money

B) everything can be used for good and bad. "AI" can help fighter pilots make decisions during mission just as much as "AI" can help Air Force researchers find the next breakthrough in materials science.

C) Defense has absolutely insane amounts of data. (Satellite images, for example.) This is great for the advancement of AI in general.

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Re:Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military ... by _aavaa_ on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:34PM (#41332305)

A) Money does talk

B) Completely irrelevant. That anything can be used for both good and bad does not invalidate the push for stopping bad applications.

C) "advancement of AI in general" is not an inherent good. And even if it were, you'd need an argument for why it should take precedence here.

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