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OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’
(www.theguardian.com)
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We gunna have to start holding programmers accountable for war crimes.
Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn't already require programmers?
They were not making targeting decisions.
They still don't. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.
There are a lot of hero programmers involved in enabling people in Ukraine to defend themselves.
For that, they'll need to license and protect the profession like other engineering vocations..