[0x54D5]

What exactly is the injustice? AI being used for military applications?

Most of these AI algorithms are open source and available on Github for anyone to use. The military is still gonna have their big bad robot with a gun that can immediately identify enemy combatants as soon as it enters a room.

The genie is out of the bag.

[JeremyBanks]

I wasn't addressing the morality of the underlying issue, but rather the virtue of this type of protest in principle.

> If google is such a bad company, then quit working for them.

Still, your comment is mistaken. The Google Walkout wasn't directly about AI or Google's other business offerings, it was mainly about sexual harassment and working conditions; the organizers were very clear about this: https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/google-walkout-organizers-exp... One of the main sparks was the discovery that Andy Rubin has been paid hundreds of millions and protected by management while he was being fired for sexual harassment. These are subjects where the law generally protects employees from retaliation.

[xvector]

> Most of these AI algorithms are open source and available on Github for anyone to use.

This is like saying "because we can create nuclear bombs, we might as well should because it pays well!"

No, with the power to engineer something comes the responsibility to make sure you are not creating something terrible. This is Ethics 101. Even if the philosophical/ethical argument is not something you care for - how many more countless, concrete examples throughout history does one need to understand this fact?