cyu@sh.itjust.works to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agoGoogle DeepMind votes to unionize to prevent military use: "the push for unionization is about holding Google to its own ethical standards"www.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkGoogle DeepMind votes to unionize to prevent military use: "the push for unionization is about holding Google to its own ethical standards"www.wired.comcyu@sh.itjust.works to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square3linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareStevelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoCritical edit to the headline: Google DeepMind [Workers] votes DeepMind itself didn’t vote to unionize. That would be interesting, frightening, and awesome.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoit would seem like a good sign if it insisted on unionizing for the sake of the workers. lol
minus-squareStevelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoIt 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.
Critical edit to the headline: Google DeepMind [Workers] vote
sDeepMind 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.