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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by tshaddox »

Legend2440 wrote: post #31
system7rocks wrote: post #28

If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options: 1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.

No, let's not. I really don't want to live in a world where the bad guys have killer AI drones and we don't.

That presumes that “killer AI drones” are a valid way to accomplish some valid goal.

For example, I do in fact want to live in a world where only the bad guys have child soldiers, use human shields, deliberately target civilians, and abuse prisoners of war.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by Helloworldboy »

cauefcr wrote: post #33
Legend2440 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, let's not. I really don't want to live in a world where the bad guys have killer AI drones and we don't.

You should take a hard look at who really is the bad guy.

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Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by havenbarnes »

adamiscool8 wrote: post #26

The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against. [0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti

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Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by Legend2440 »

tshaddox wrote: post #41
Legend2440 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, let's not. I really don't want to live in a world where the bad guys have killer AI drones and we don't.

That presumes that “killer AI drones” are a valid way to accomplish some valid goal. For example, I do in fact want to live in a world where only the bad guys have child soldiers, use human shields, deliberately target civilians, and abuse prisoners of war.

If the other guys have child soldiers, you don't need child soldiers of your own to defeat them.

If the other guys have an army of killer robots and you don't, you are going to die.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by JoshTriplett »

Legend2440 wrote: post #45
tshaddox wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That presumes that “killer AI drones” are a valid way to accomplish some valid goal. For example, I do in fact want to live in a world where only the bad guys have child soldiers, use human shields, deliberately target civilians, and abuse prisoners of war.

If the other guys have child soldiers, you don't need child soldiers of your own to defeat them. If the other guys have an army of killer robots and you don't, you are going to die.

Do not succumb to "we have to win the race" reasoning and escalation, when the race is leading off a cliff. It is, in fact, possible to stop things via international cooperation. Treat it the way we do nuclear proliferation. (Efforts to stop nuclear proliferation have not been perfect, but they've been incredibly effective and made it much more difficult to make the problem worse than it already is.)

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by gos9 »

system7rocks wrote: post #28

If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options: 1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.

No <3

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by aaron695 »

havenbarnes wrote: post #44
adamiscool8 wrote: post #26

The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against. [0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti

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Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by gopher_space »

system7rocks wrote: post #28

If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options: 1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.

I think the way I'd put this is that taking certain jobs will permanently define your career and nobody will tell you about it.

Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people

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Post by vkou »

bawolff wrote: post #16
mentalgear wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do all the worst companies in the world have in common? Blackstone, Blackrock, Blackwater ..? Always that Black prefix, like something out of a bad action movie.

Blackwater renames itself every so often to get away from the bad press, so its not in the name anymore. I dont know what blackrock did to be evil. Seems like a pretty generic company that sells basically every type of stock.

Blackrock provides management services for a significant percentage of all global wealth, which makes it an excellent target for:

* People who think a cabal of reptilian globalists control the world.

* People who think that capitalism is an emergent system that is destroying our culture, social cohesion, and environment.

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