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It's worrisome to me that a U.S. company helping the U.S. military is viewed as so controversial that it would cease to finish that work. I'm glad Amazon and Mi
by dawhizkid 8y ago
It's worrisome to me that a U.S. company helping the U.S. military is viewed as so controversial that it would cease to finish that work. I'm glad Amazon and Microsoft, among big tech cos, haven't caved in like Google has.
And yet Google has the gall to spend $5m on a Super Bowl ad touting how it helps veterans. Ridiculous.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI see a huge difference between "not helping the military" and "not helping create autonomous weapons". And our drone program is hardly military, it's a mostly CIA-led project to assassinate people without due process in areas we are not at war.
- dlp211 8y agoYou have no idea what you are talking about. The vast majority of drone use is for military surveillance that have no strike capabilities, and are used to determine whether to put soldiers on the ground. Good drone surveillance is literally the best resource we have for preventing bad military outcomes. It saves lives, both American and other.
- saagarjha 8y agoThe problem is that technology developed for "good" drone surveillance can be transferred quite easily to drones with strike capabilities.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThe problem with that claim is that a significant portion of our drone use does not take place in countries we are deploying soldiers. And an insane number of dead children keep turning up.
- tanilama 8y agoAgree. But Google puts such moral handcuffs on itself, hardly worthy of any sympathy.