[CMay]

Bombing that building was an accident due to it being on what was part of a military target and I'm not sure if it was ever made clear whether the building was technically dual use despite also being used as a school. Either way, bombing a bunch of school girls wasn't intentional and nobody reasonable would assume it was.

There was a time we bombed a bus or van with kids in it, but we admitted it and apologized for the mistake. Nobody wants to be bombing kids, first because they're innocent, but second because there is no military advantage to it since it's bad PR.

Many of these targets were identified before Anthropic or OpenAI even existed.

[throwaw12]

If it wasn't intentional and accident, did anyone apologize for that mistake?

Also the point is, you (Dario) can't claim morality, when he is fine doing business with entities literally bombing and killing human beings in other countries.

You are either fine with it and continue working - which Dario is doing

Or you say, I will not work with you.

For Dario, main thing is money, everything else in his article is bs

[CMay]

Cars can be used to escape, or to attack. Guns and knives can be used to defend or to attack.

AI has multiple uses. Military attacks can also save lives. As they say, the best defense is a good offense.

The moral element of it largely falls on the people who made the mistake. That said, it is also widely known that civilian casualties are a part of war. The advent of precision strikes has greatly reduced civilian casualties.

Meanwhile, Iran has intentionally promoted the direct targeting of civilians and killed 10s of thousands of their own, while funding proxies that killed many civilians elsewhere.

[throwaw12]

So now you are using famous knife argument.

In your argument have you considered: selling a knife knowingly to gang members just before they are going to another area to kill other gang members

Anthropic did same when it agreed to sell it's tool to DoW. There is no mistake, no misunderstanding of intentions.

He was super clear that he doesn't give a dime to any lives outside of USA, inside USA he was concerned about automatic weapon usage and surveillance of US citizens, because he himself could be accidentally killed, he doesn't care about others.

[CMay]

That's not accurate. AI can help the military increase precision which can also save civilians lives in other countries where the military is active. AI is not intentionally targeting schools the way Russia is in Ukraine. People are going on about this one single accidental school strike in Iran, meanwhile Russia has hit thousands of schools in Ukraine. Something like 1 out of every 7 schools has been damaged or destroyed and even though the numbers are tracked separately, they have killed something like ~800 children.

A similar argument was made for why Microsoft shouldn't sell software or services to border patrol or ICE. The counter-argument was that if it helps them be more precise and reduce errors in their managing of all the people then it could actually help not just the organization, but also the people.

Again, whether it's human or AI, mistakes will be made and civilian casualties will likely remain a part of war. AI can ideally keep civilian casualties low.

[throwaw12]

> AI is not intentionally targeting schools the way Russia is in Ukraine.

Are you sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...

They even have the cool one: "Where's Daddy?" - which tracks the suspect and then notifies the officials when suspect is at home, so IDF can bomb the whole building.

In this case AI is specifically designed to increase the civilian casualties, why not shoot the suspect independently, why include their neighbours, imagine your neighbour in 10 floor apartment building is a terrorist and your building gets bombed because of single person

[CMay]

The US isn't Israel. We have criticized and questioned Israeli attacks on numerous occasions. Privately and openly. The US can make mistakes or misuse/abuse technology as well, but you're linking primarily to a page about Israeli strikes.

Israel has had Iran and its proxies directly and intentionally target Israeli civilians and other civilians in the region, so their perspective on attacks may or may not be more flexible compared to the U.S. approach. I don't know. They have gotten some criticism for their tactics, but nobody argues that they are in a dangerous neighborhood.

There have been more occasions where Israel explicitly went out of its way to avoid civilian casualties than not, so I don't think it's the norm. Based on the extremes I've seen them willing to go to, though, I'm not surprised if it has happened. That said, I'm not saying I know whether that wikipedia page is accurate or not since it relies on an anonymous source and the IDF denied it.

As I said though, the US under multiple administrations had criticized and warned Israel to be more disciplined in its bombing, for what that's worth.

[8-prime]

It ideally can, yes, but if you choose to partake in the military operations by providing your LLM you at least bear some responsibility. When you don't give the DoW access to your LLM it may still be the case that actions will be taken that inflict some humans suffering. In that case you won't have had a hand in it though.