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by musicalentropy 2945 days ago
For people who still don't see any problem in this, I have to remind you that ultimately the guy on top of the military hierarchy in charge for selecting the drones with AI targets is... Donald Trump. If you're not scared now, I don't know what to do anymore.

At some point, I thought that the main goal of these big startups with tons of claims and wishful thinking was to make the world a better place and help humanity to become a better version of itself. Instead now they create tools and weapons to "reduce collateral damages" in governemental induced wars (which have not solved anything over the last 20 years in Middle East but only increased cash flow in West pockets, made tons of death, both there and in West countries), and they have access to information related with most of the citizens at the same time. OK cool.

In 10 years we will talk about whistleblowers killed by drones using AI as well.

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> I have to remind you that ultimately the guy on top of the military hierarchy in charge for selecting the drones with AI targets is... Donald Trump

How can we be sure that this is so?

- Can Trump make military decisions by himself (i.e. not choose among the ones that are offered to him by the military)?

- Hasn't it been established recently that the military have the right to refuse his orders if they are particularly crazy (see e.g. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-tru...)?