Google 'to end' Pentagon Artificial Intelligence project(bbc.com)
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Google 'to end' Pentagon Artificial Intelligence project
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44341490
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"executives saw the contract as a huge opportunity while being concerned about how the company's involvement would be perceived"
Pretty damning they are concerned about how they may look to the outside world, instead of being actually worried about the consequences of being complicit to the development of a new breed of killing machines, and therefore also to how they will be used.
Pretty damning they are concerned about how they may look to the outside world, instead of being actually worried about the consequences of being complicit to the development of a new breed of killing machines, and therefore also to how they will be used.
So now the motto is “do not look evil”.
That is a pretty good ethical principle.
That is a pretty good ethical principle.
So they happily continue for the next 10 months. Well played.
Don't they have a contract with the federal government for the current period? Are you suggesting they should be breaching it?
They should just try to cancel the contract as soon as possible.
Don't worry, other companies and/or militaries will do that
Do you think China will have any qualms about making selling AI enabled drones?
I'm not saying Google is doing the wrong thing, but there are other players to do the same thing.
Do you think China will have any qualms about making selling AI enabled drones?
I'm not saying Google is doing the wrong thing, but there are other players to do the same thing.
None says US should not use high tech, just that an international company like Google doing this will have big consequences to it's business abroad and inside US and people , employees and customers have expressed their right to tell Google management they don't want to be involved with this.
I personally think is a bad idea that a big company like Google to be associated with military,NSA, CIA , it will end up with losing customers outside the US and even in US, like the Dropbox image issue where some people quit using it (I don't remember exactly the names involved)
I personally think is a bad idea that a big company like Google to be associated with military,NSA, CIA , it will end up with losing customers outside the US and even in US, like the Dropbox image issue where some people quit using it (I don't remember exactly the names involved)
1e^100 kills
More effective warfare in the right hands would kill less people. We're fine when America keeps the military upper hand, we're fucked if nations who care less about keeping people alive do decide that using neural nets for warfare is a sound idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World's_largest_...
Do you think this technology will really "disrupt" which nation is both the largest manufacturer and consumer of weapons?
I think who the "right hands" are to handle military power is something that reasonable people can (and do) disagree on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World's_largest_...
Do you think this technology will really "disrupt" which nation is both the largest manufacturer and consumer of weapons?
I think who the "right hands" are to handle military power is something that reasonable people can (and do) disagree on...
I personally would not want to work on killer automatic robots even if is a challenging domain and some other country is doing it, if someone else wants to work on that then I am ok and a society we need to find a way to make this things illegal(like we have done for land mines,chemical weapons etc)
The US already kills a lot of people with drone strikes based on highly questionable intelligence. I’m not sure how involving “AI” would make the process of deciding who to kill any less arbitrary.
>More effective warfare in the right hands would kill less people
Debatable. Putting too much trust into technological solutions to make the killing decisions for you may as well reduce oversight and transparency. After all, if the algorithm said that the guy was a terrorist and deserved to die, who would question it? It's supposedly an unbiased machine making the call, right?
Algorithmic transparency is really not understood enough to even consider autonomous warfare. If Google wants to pretend that it's doing something ethical when working in that space, most of their focus should be on that instead of making drones kill better.
Debatable. Putting too much trust into technological solutions to make the killing decisions for you may as well reduce oversight and transparency. After all, if the algorithm said that the guy was a terrorist and deserved to die, who would question it? It's supposedly an unbiased machine making the call, right?
Algorithmic transparency is really not understood enough to even consider autonomous warfare. If Google wants to pretend that it's doing something ethical when working in that space, most of their focus should be on that instead of making drones kill better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208892
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209691