[panarky]

We’re looking at a powerful entity that builds fine-grained psychological profiles of over two billion humans, that runs large-scale behavior manipulation experiments, and that aims at developing the best AI technology the world has ever seen. Personally, it really scares me

If you work in AI, please don't help them. Don't play their game. Don't participate in their research ecosystem. Please show some conscience

When Facebook does something awful, their defenders rush to say "what about Google, they're even worse!"

There's a lot of false equivalence in HN discussions, but these two are not in the same galaxy when it comes to abusing the privacy of their users.