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> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use ou
by pavel_lishin 8mo ago
> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.
Hope is neat, but are the signatories willing to quit their jobs over this? Kind of a hollow threat if not.
- iso1631 8mo agoMaybe their union will call a strike
- robwwilliams 8mo agoQuitting their jobs? How is that the pragmatic or effective response?
- dr_kretyn 8mo agoQuitting no. Quite quitting or internal turmoil could be beneficial. Of course, in case these people meaningfully contributed in the first place otherwise it's a good pretext to fire for cause without any severance.
- pavel_lishin 8mo agoHow would it be pragmatic to say, "oh well!" and continue working there?
- drewda 8mo agoThey put their names to their position publicly. That is meaningful action.
- archydeb 8mo agoWell, some did. I was surprised to see so many anonymous signatories.
- layla5alive 8mo agoOnly 600 from Google and 93 from OpenAI? And many of those anonymous? Truly our industry is full of cowards and complicit people.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo agoThey wrote a letter. Meaningless. How many are going to quit their highly compensated jobs over it?