This is mostly good; the bad is that the people unionizing would use the same pro-Military Industrial Complex language as OpenAI to explain their willingness to commit violent.
Employees pushing back on the deal are concerned that it could open the door for Google’s technology to be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens.
The loopholes in this seemingly Wholesome Keanu Chungus statement are broad and pretty obvious if given a little thought. Employees allow for:
- semi autonomous mass murder weapons
- selective new AI surveillance
- all the mass surveillance currently happening
If you dig any deeper into it, most of the linked articles from the Business Insider post point to AI Apocalypse fearmongering from Google and Google subsidiaries. Sigh.
It’s labor organizing, not intellectual engagement. The point is to build power in the company, not argue about vocabulary. Words are instrumental, they are not the goal.
Here’s a hot take: If a union does bad things, those things are still bad. Like police unions. Hotter take: mass murder is bad.
Surely the brilliant minds at Google can think just a little bit about the loopholes? No?
The alternative is:
Less money for workers
More AI murderbots.
If the union is successfull it means more money for workers, and less AI murderbots.
Please point out if I’m wrong somewhere.
I choose option 3. A union with better policies. I don’t see what’s preventing them from providing them.
The union membership have supports this. Do you know better or something?
police union is more like a gang/mafia that an actual union.