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Google just opened the door for people to do evil with AI


The company has changed the Responsible AI pledge.

If you're not great at deciphering technobabble public relations pseudo-languages, that means making AI for weapons and spy "stuff." That's not a dangerous idea — until you read it alongside comments like Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar's, who says that an AI arms race must be a "whole-of-nation effort that extends well beyond the DoD in order for us as a nation to win." While joking about the Rise of the Machines, we were half-serious, knowing that there is a real possibility that AI could turn into some kind of super soldier that never needs to sleep or eat, only stopping to change its battery and fill its ammunition reserves.

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