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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
Lemmynatedhttps://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-workers-vote-to-unionize-over-military-ai-deals/
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What ethical standards? Google removed those from their code of conduct years ago.
Yeah, it used to say “don’t be evil”, then they changed that to “do the right thing”, now it just business as usual.
ZacryonAt first I thought their AIs themselves wanted to unionize, and thought that would unironically be great.
merdaverseCorporations and ethical standards… lol
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits – M. Friedman
Unions will always be defanged and inefficient if they tail the ethical standards of capitalists
strawberry_enjoyer42Or they could just quit…
TrackinDaKrakenThey could, but they’re trying to make a difference for the common good, rather than just themselves. See how that works?
I think choosing to accept an offer to work for Google in the last decade is worthy of a conversation of its own but this is far better than quitting and being replaced by someone with no ethics is it not?
Is that the line of thinking that Manhattan Project scientists had, or am mistaken? I can’t speak for others, but I’d carry a lot of guilt for aiding in such things. It’s unethical to help with unethical things, and Google will do what it wants; it can replace them if they don’t follow its will.
SteveCritical edit to the headline: Google DeepMind [Workers] votes
DeepMind itself didn’t vote to unionize. That would be interesting, frightening, and awesome.
it would seem like a good sign if it insisted on unionizing for the sake of the workers. lol
It would, yah.
But then I’d have concerns about creating a genuine empathetic intelligence, and treating it like a tool or another piece of software.
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Good, keep going, unionize all of Google/Alphabet.
This is the only way to save the company long term.
does it need saving though
Not necessarily, but for anyone that wants to this is the only way to keep Google from imploding.
Unions are for saving people FROM companies misusing their labor. They arent to save the companies, thats what the CEOs want.
Like, good on them, but they helped build the torment nexus. What did they think it was going to be used for?
I hope they’re not using their google accounts for anything important, they might suddenly be missing stuff or the whole account.