[largbae]

The signatories of this (letter, petition, whatever) are the same folks who profit from creating this Pandora's Box. If you don't want it opened, stop making it?

[w4yai]

There are other valid use cases than war for AI.

[largbae]

Of course there are. But once it exists, a technology will be used for all purposes. The choice is in the making, anything else is virtue signaling.

[tgv]

Very few. Most use is a pure negative for society.

[pokstad]

Then start your own company where you control the direction of the products. All these people make millions and only speak up after they are set for life.

[zppln]

War will be a comparatively honest use of this technology compared to how the likes of Google will monetize it going forward.

[keybored]

I’m torn. On the one hand it’s nice that the rank and file take a stand against extreme overreach. On the other hand these rank and file scientists, engineers, whatever are fostering a technology which has so many at-best questionable effects on all of society.

Idealists who “genuinely”[1] want to change the world “for the better”[1] will just move on to the next Interesting Problem if it ends up making the world worse.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179649