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The issue is not really working for the government. Internally there is a strong culture around ethics. One day we had an interesting discussion between colleg
by gbin 9y ago
The issue is not really working for the government. Internally there is a strong culture around ethics. One day we had an interesting discussion between collegues at lunch: we imagined what would happen if Google got involved in a war and participated to the effort by using all its projects for nefarious purposes... Biological weapons, robots, AI weapons, infrastructure hacked all over, disinformation, ... I think no one wants a militarized Google.
- mc32 9y agoI do believe many of the people there believe in some form of ethics, but are blind to others. We know that Google has more information on people than FB, but this is irrelevant to most googlers because they believe they are good custodians of the data. Back to realpolitik. These capabilities will be developed by someone. Unilateral retrenchment is ineffective, so if they somehow want to stall the US gov't (because they think google would give the gov't a leg up) all they are doing is giving our competitors in whatever area a nice handicap. It would have been like the people working on the Manhattan project saying, no, this is unethical, while Germany and Japan would continue the effort unencumbered --leaving the US at a tremendous disadvantage.