Why is it that this line items comes up EVERY TIME an article comes out in a knee jerk reaction - its so incredibly absolute:

"Any AI researcher who continues to work here is morally compromised."

It feels like a constant campaign and the posters seem so incredibly self righteous and unthoughtful.

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crumpled 2 days ago | parent [-]

Probably because the articles are talking about how the AI will be used in immoral ways, and that the people who know that and continue doing the work must be morally compromised.

I know that there might be $several ways those highly-paid engineers might still rationalize their work. Some of them might have ideological reasons to treat entire classes of people as unworthy of life. Within the model of their ideologies, the most evil things might be perfectly moral.

I wonder what reasons you have to disagree with people's moral stance against using AI as a weapon.

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boringg 2 days ago | parent [-]

In absoluteness you lose your credibility except when rallying people to arms.

	▲	anematode 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I stand by it. I'm not including all Google employees, ofc – there are some fantastic projects coming out of there – just the people working on their AI systems which will be accessible to the government with (effectively) no oversight. I actually don't think it's so nuanced. We know (from its spat with Anthropic) that the government wants the ability to use AI to implement mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous killings. We also have ample data that this administration takes the law as a mere suggestion. It's imperative not to make their abuses easier. Google's researchers aren't stuck there; their skills are in extraordinary demand and I'm sure Anthropic, for example, would hire them in an instant.