> what if the code you write or autonomous machine you contribute to used for killing?

This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West. If the US wasn't so good at producing killing machines in WW2, you wouldn't be here to complain about DARPA ethics.

Instead of having engineers develop the most advanced machines for killing (i.e. protecting the West) such people go into producing the most addictive content delivery systems, destroying the brains of minors.

Why are those the only two options?

> This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West.

He specifically said autonomous killing machines. You understand the difference right?

Reread the original quote:

"what if the code you write OR autonomous machine you contribute to used for killing"

We’re the bad guys. We were only the “good guys” for like 4 years in the 1940s and we still did internment camps. Everyone is costing off that 80 year old aura to justify a death machine.

What is this “West” that you care so much about?

>This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West

Hell yeah