Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
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Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#2Kudos to those who is ready to stand for their principles.
If you are at G and thinking whether you should resign or not, remembers this - the market for AI talent is super hot. You will immediately find lots of great and challenging AI work pushing humanity forward
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#3seems like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074148 which has more comments
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#4You'd think that killing people would be covered by "Do no evil"
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#5> runs contrary to Google's ethos -- the mantra "don't be evil" has long been at the heart of Google's principles
Thinking that the military of your own country is "evil" seems a bit puerile to me. Watching too many movies and TV shows can have that effect.
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#6> Google recently sponsored the Conservative Political Action Conference, for instance.
Of course, there would be no conscientious objectors if it were a liberal event
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#7> runs contrary to Google's ethos -- the mantra "don't be evil" has long been at the heart of Google's principles Thinking that the military of your own country is "evil" seems a bit puerile to me. Watching too many movies and TV shows can have that effect.
Because F16s are developed in USA and used only by US military ? /s
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#8I wouldn’t say that developing military hardware necessarily negates the “don’t be evil” principal (especially if the developed articles are dual use, for both military and civilian applications). The western world, our principals and values have prospered for more than half a century in Pax Americana afforded, in a large part, by the prosperous US Military Industrial Complex.
I totally get the objection to developing combative AI - that’s a separate ethical question - but you can contribute to the military and still maintain your humane values.
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#9dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064776 (98 comments) (discussion of the Gizmodo article thats the source of this article)
Re: Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
#10> runs contrary to Google's ethos -- the mantra "don't be evil" has long been at the heart of Google's principles Thinking that the military of your own country is "evil" seems a bit puerile to me. Watching too many movies and TV shows can have that effect.
It would be puerile for a Swedish person, far from it for an American. The fact that it’s the military of my own country has little to do with how evil it is or isn’t.