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> Didn’t we just go through several weeks of hearing about OpenAI allowing its tech to be used for conducting warfare?

Unfortunately warfare is a thing. Why wouldn't you want the best technology used for your country when conducting warfare? Or do you just believe warfare would cease to exist if a country gave up any means of defense or offense?

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You're allowed to authorize your technology to be used to kill people, but if you do so, you shouldn't be surprised when those people also try to kill you. America and Americans somehow keep forgetting that actions have consequences and the government can't always override the consequences.

"Authorize" technology to kill you?

Are cars authorized to run people over?

Are painkillers "authorized" to get people to overdose?

Are computer chips "authorized" to be put into bombers?

What are you even talking about?

That's what's happening when people want to blame specific persons for world issues instead of the collective.

> Are painkillers "authorized" to get people to overdose?

Are you saying the Sacklers did nothing wrong?

The government asked Sam Altman "may we use this to kill people?" and Sam Altman said "yes if you pay us lots of money". What's hard to understand?

I wouldn't want my country to use the best technology when conducting warfare because my country only conducts offensive warfare resulting in millions of innocent deaths in the Middle East, having a massive military budget that dwarfs most others combined whilst hardly ever being directly threatened.

Can we at least drop the sports games terminology ("defense", "offense") and acknowledge we're talking about mass killing of people here?

These words originated with war and were adopted by sports.

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