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Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. Read more here: tcrn.ch/4aKfIZa

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They probably had to go into defense because there’s nothing else they know how to do well, and in defense you don’t need to know how to do things well. I was reading an article that said since Gmail, Google hasn’t had a single successful product launch. The rest were acquisitions

You’re not wrong that there are definitely military applications, but it’s also a race to automate entire professions and reduce corporations’ costs by eliminating salaries and benefits. Not that it makes the whole thing any better. But it adds economic violence to the physical violence.

Yes. Example of your point in this article at a large and dangerous scale. Musk ingraining his AI supercomputer into every thread of government. bsky.app/profile/jonc...

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

A leaked recording reveals the Trump administration’s plans to use AI to help rewrite a large chunk of the federal government’s computer systems.