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    OpenAI employees question the ethics of military deal with startup Anduril

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      “On an internal company discussion forum, employees pushed back on the deal and asked for more transparency from leaders, messages viewed by The Washington Post show.

      OpenAI has said its work with Anduril will be limited to using AI to enhance systems the defense company sells the Pentagon to defend U.S. soldiers from drone attacks. Employees at the AI developer asked in internal messages how OpenAI could ensure Anduril systems aided by its technology wouldn’t also be directed against human-piloted aircraft, or stop the U.S. military from deploying them in other ways.

      One OpenAI worker said the company appeared to be trying to downplay the clear implications of doing business with a weapons manufacturer, the messages showed. Another that they were concerned the deal would hurt OpenAI’s reputation, according to the messages.

      A third said that defensive use cases still represented militarization of AI, and noted that the fictional AI system Skynet, which turns on humanity in the *Terminator* movies, was also originally designed to defend against aerial attacks on North America.”

    2. tingulz on

      Here’s the problem. If we don’t create ways to use AI for defensive (and offensive) someone else we don’t want having it will likely do it before us and then we will really be in trouble. Similar to nuclear bombs.

    3. Lord_Crumb on

      Billionaires need to stop naming their insidious shit after Lord of the Rings.

      * Palantir – A device used to maintain contact with the dark lord, Sauron / Cyber security company
      * Sauron – The aforementioned dark lord / Security hardware made specifically for tech millionaires
      * Anduril – Ancient legendary sword that signals a restoration of the old order / A weapons manufacturer apparently

      Although it does make it easier to identify these people as bad guys when most of these companies use words derived from black speak…