[system7rocks]

If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options:

1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.

[Legend2440]

No, let's not. I really don't want to live in a world where the bad guys have killer AI drones and we don't.

[tshaddox]

That presumes that “killer AI drones” are a valid way to accomplish some valid goal.

For example, I do in fact want to live in a world where only the bad guys have child soldiers, use human shields, deliberately target civilians, and abuse prisoners of war.

[Legend2440]

If the other guys have child soldiers, you don't need child soldiers of your own to defeat them.

If the other guys have an army of killer robots and you don't, you are going to die.

[JoshTriplett]

Do not succumb to "we have to win the race" reasoning and escalation, when the race is leading off a cliff. It is, in fact, possible to stop things via international cooperation. Treat it the way we do nuclear proliferation. (Efforts to stop nuclear proliferation have not been perfect, but they've been incredibly effective and made it much more difficult to make the problem worse than it already is.)

[IncreasePosts]

Nukes are intrinsically complex and require a high degree of skill, time, and resources to pull off.

Attack drones can be as easy as strapping an off the shelf grenade to an off the shelf drone.

[TiredOfLife]

What fairyland do you live in?

[cauefcr]

You should take a hard look at who really is the bad guy.

[SkinTaco]

I suppose in the context of the article you're commenting on you're saying the bad people are the ones defending the women and children from being raped?

[rexpop]

"The use of drones in these areas causes more collateral damage among the civilian population than it truly neutralizes gangs."

[HDThoreaun]

Only 5% of the deaths seem to be collateral damage. There can be no freedom without order.

[Anamon]

A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me.

TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone.

Edit: I get the argument that it was a war zone anyway and people are also afraid of the gangs. But that comes from the fallacy of seeing the drone strikes as the only option. There are better ways to create order than creating even more chaos and hope it hits the right people sometimes.

[odie5533]

Option 4 - Summon Shoggoth and no one exists to go to jail.

[SkinTaco]

Good thing I transitioned last year, I like my job

[gopher_space]

I think the way I'd put this is that taking certain jobs will permanently define your career and nobody will tell you about it.

[createaccount99]

> Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life.

There will only be consequences for the losing side, if even then. See WW2. Options 1/2 are valid, option 3 should be "cope being evil."

[gos9]

No <3