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It's real hard for me to conjure up "good" uses for, say, mustard gas or bioweapons or nuclear warheads. "Technology is neutral" is a cop-out and should be see
by jzb 1y ago
It's real hard for me to conjure up "good" uses for, say, mustard gas or bioweapons or nuclear warheads.
"Technology is neutral" is a cop-out and should be seen as such. People should, at the very least, try to ask how people / society will make use of a technology and ask whether it should be developed/promoted.
We are all-too-often over-optimistic about how things will be used or position them being used in the best possible light rather than being realistic in how things will be used.
In a perfect world, people might only use AI responsibly and in ways that largely benefit mankind. We don't live in that perfect world, and it is/was predictable that AI would be used in the worst ways more than it's used in beneficial ones.
- wartywhoa23 1y agoWhy? Soviets tried to re-route rivers with nuclear blasts in their infinite scientifically-based wisdom and godlike hubris. How much illness their radioactive sandbox would cause among people was clearly too minuscle a problem for them to reflect on. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250523-the-soviet-plan-to-reverse-siberias-rivers-with-peaceful-nuclear-explosions https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250523-the-soviet-plan-...
- bananaflag 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
- sph 1y ago> "Technology is neutral" is a cop-out and should be seen as such. Uncle Ted, Neil Postman, Jacques Ellul were right all along.