Also consider that object detection has a lot of impact in positive ways as well. It doesn't seem so black and white.
I'm a researcher working on a system for monitoring offshore kelp farms for renewable aquaculture with an autonomous underwater vehicle. I can't use GPS underwater, Dopper velocity logs and sensitive inertial navigation systems are either too expensive and/or export-controlled, and doing manual filtering of visual data is tricky and inconsistent. Adding good object detection for kelp to helps to make that kind of system much more reliable, which can help provide useful metrics to groups working on creating new biofuel sources and marine ecosystem monitoring. I think that's valuable work, and it's enabled by YOLO.
Joe Redmon has paid attention to where and how his work is being used, and I respect him for disengaging with something that he finds not to line up with his values. But it's worth pointing out that there are people (not just me) who are using that work in ways that might be worthwhile.
Your work seems worthy of an AMA if you ever have the time.
For example, the robotics end is currently a human-piloted ROV with data getting obtained in post-processing on dozens of fronds, rather than an AUV doing real-time inference (hopefully to be solved by YOLO) on thousands. However, I recently heard about some tentative plans for a more in-depth pilot-scale effort in Spring/Summer 2021, by which time we'll hopefully have some more interesting results to talk about!
[1] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=slick-sheet-project/scalable-aq...
I'm curious if this is something that some sort of modified license could help resolve. Do I have the option to license my software so that it can't be used in war?
"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
Licenses are not a viable solution to this sort of ethical quandry.