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by nan0 2639 days ago
Why not have Google decide the AI for military applications? This group who is against current drone warfare, which they have every right to. See [0]. One civilian is one too many! So why doesn't Google actually put their ethics and AI knowledge into action, by maybe coming to a better solution to identify actual enemy combatants?

The military will use drone warfare regardless of what a group of Google employees think. The US military is in dire need of ethics in AI [1]

[0] "Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities" [PDF] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press%20Release...

[1] "Does the U.S. Face an AI Ethics Gap?" https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/01/does-the-us-face-an-ai-eth...