Comment by CMay
1 month ago
Bombing that building was an accident due to it being on what was part of a military target and I'm not sure if it was ever made clear whether the building was technically dual use despite also being used as a school. Either way, bombing a bunch of school girls wasn't intentional and nobody reasonable would assume it was.
There was a time we bombed a bus or van with kids in it, but we admitted it and apologized for the mistake. Nobody wants to be bombing kids, first because they're innocent, but second because there is no military advantage to it since it's bad PR.
Many of these targets were identified before Anthropic or OpenAI even existed.
If it wasn't intentional and accident, did anyone apologize for that mistake?
Also the point is, you (Dario) can't claim morality, when he is fine doing business with entities literally bombing and killing human beings in other countries.
You are either fine with it and continue working - which Dario is doing
Or you say, I will not work with you.
For Dario, main thing is money, everything else in his article is bs
Cars can be used to escape, or to attack. Guns and knives can be used to defend or to attack.
AI has multiple uses. Military attacks can also save lives. As they say, the best defense is a good offense.
The moral element of it largely falls on the people who made the mistake. That said, it is also widely known that civilian casualties are a part of war. The advent of precision strikes has greatly reduced civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, Iran has intentionally promoted the direct targeting of civilians and killed 10s of thousands of their own, while funding proxies that killed many civilians elsewhere.
So now you are using famous knife argument.
In your argument have you considered: selling a knife knowingly to gang members just before they are going to another area to kill other gang members
Anthropic did same when it agreed to sell it's tool to DoW. There is no mistake, no misunderstanding of intentions.
He was super clear that he doesn't give a dime to any lives outside of USA, inside USA he was concerned about automatic weapon usage and surveillance of US citizens, because he himself could be accidentally killed, he doesn't care about others.
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Since the current wave of "politicians", apologizing for one's mistakes is considered "woke" and "unmanly".