If someone says “hey, you used a coin flip to decide if a school should be annihilated”, it’s pretty easy to say “We don’t use coin flips to make targeting decisions, and would never intentionally target a school”. Unless, of course, you do and did.

This is a post about AI.

@mcnado

💯 Check out @jonny's brilliant thread on how AI's primary function is to shield culpabilty:

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116196031706349510

@mastodonmigration @mcnado @jonny

If you accept that AI is a tool, how can it possibly relieve the user of the tool of culpability?
If you hit someone with a hammer, it isn't the hammer's fault!

#AI

@rgulick

At least someone has not lost all their ability to reason. Good to read a sane comment for a change.