Google, Drones and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms.

It's a good thing that Google's parent-company 'Alphabet' dropped the motto, "Don't be evil.", last year because I think this might very well qualify as promoting evil.

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06...echnology-for-drone-strike-targeting-project/

Artificial intelligence is increasingly playing roles in advertising, resource allocation, insurance accessibility, human resources and the getting of a job, medicine and determining prison sentences for convicted criminals. Now Google is using its social media platforms, the data they collect and AI programmes to help the US government decide who to kill covertly and the social media company is getting well paid for their efforts. Will the new motto eventually be, "Don't be alive!"? What price profits, in a world where communication of prohibited ideas and causes is a death sentence with no judicial recourse? Does Google now sell extrajudicial murder for profit and if so, is that evil?

Cheers?
Evilroddy.

Evilroddy said:

It's a good thing that Google's parent-company 'Alphabet' dropped the motto, "Don't be evil.", last year because I think this might very well qualify as promoting evil.

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06...echnology-for-drone-strike-targeting-project/

Artificial intelligence is increasingly playing roles in advertising, resource allocation, insurance accessibility, human resources and the getting of a job, medicine and determining prison sentences for convicted criminals. Now Google is using its social media platforms, the data they collect and AI programmes to help the US government decide who to kill covertly and the social media company is getting well paid for their efforts. Will the new motto eventually be, "Don't be alive!"? What price profits, in a world where communication of prohibited ideas and causes is a death sentence with no judicial recourse? Does Google now sell extrajudicial murder for profit and if so, is that evil?

Cheers?
Evilroddy.

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Interesting, but not new. I watched a documentary on Netflix recently...check it out, it's called A Good American. They had technology that could work this kind of thing out before 9/11, opting to shut if off due to the fact that it was too cheap!!

I think that like anything, there's the potential for good, and the potential for evil. If it used to save lives by taking out imminent threats, fantastic. But it never really seems to stop there, and the code that looks for patterns which indicate terrorism could would be roughly the same, but with perhaps different values in the variables, as those that look for dissidents.

I think that AI is going to be a reality in the near future, and one that we interact with more and more. This has the potential to create all kinds of problems, but it also has the potential to provide all kinds of positive results as well. Given how things are going now there's a lot of reason to be worried, but hopefully we will smarten up and use AI and robotics for good. Not much we can do but wait and see...