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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by neuronexmachina on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:11PM (#49851242)
JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS ONLINE CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE, SUCH AS IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, DIRECT LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF JAVA TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by Loquebantur on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:23PM (#49851376)
OP makes a category error already by ignoring the part where the US military/government wants to commit crimes (against humanity and whatnot) and pretends, questioning that would be a crime.

You here make another one by pretending, AI was just some random tool, like a screwdriver or a programming language.

AI can make decisions autonomously that would otherwise require a human. Like selecting people to be murdered by drone strike based on arbitrary criteria. A programming language by itself, JAVA, cannot do that.

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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by grim_io on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:36PM (#49851513)
There is nothing stopping any plain old algorithm being used for the same. The difference is that people decide, for whatever reason, to use the tool or to not use it.
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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by RossBencina on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:13PM (#49852147)
AI can make decisions all it likes. I if you don't integrate it with the drone strike MCP server it's as impotent as a JVM without any code to execute.
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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by nradov on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:15PM (#49852859)
An if/then statement or random number generator in Java can make decisions autonomously. Heck, the US military has deployed fully autonomous weapons since at least 1979 (long before LLMs existed).

https://www.vp4association.com/aircraft-information-2/32-2/m...

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Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as su... by jlarocco on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:02AM (#49853358)
That doesn't say you can't do them, though - they just don't take responsibility if doing so fails because of Java somehow.

Basically, it voids the warranty, which you don't really have with Java anyway.

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