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    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 12 21:33:17 2024
    From the «should be fine i'm sure» department:
    Title: Today’s ethical dilemmas are being decided by tech bros. How can they keep their compass straight?
    Author: Semyon Dukach
    Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:30:29 +0000
    Link: https://thenextweb.com/news/ethical-dilemmas-tech-founders-compass-straight
    Podcast Download URL: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F07%2FTechEthics-e1720771879629.jpg&signature=368842b1683782ea210fe9720ac1968c

    [image 1]
    Tech bros are for the first time poised to become pivotal players in highly sensitive sectors: national security, space exploration, and more. Most recently, NATO’s €1B Innovation Fund announced investments in eight startups
    and VC firms with a focus on emerging military and defense technologies.  As the startup ecosystem has become more sophisticated, it is now starting to disrupt these tightly controlled sectors, which were until recently the domain of governments and legacy institutions. Take these examples: Space is quickly becoming the next battleground for geopolitics — and private companies are now
    dominating cosmic exploration. Military conflicts are being defined…

    This story continues[2] at The Next Web

    Links:
    [1]: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F07%2FTechEthics-e1720771879629.jpg&signature=368842b1683782ea210fe9720ac1968c (image)
    [2]: https://thenextweb.com/news/ethical-dilemmas-tech-founders-compass-straight?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Sat Jul 13 11:44:24 2024
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Fri, 12 Jul 2024, Retrograde wrote:

    From the «should be fine i'm sure» department:
    Title: Today’s ethical dilemmas are being decided by tech bros. How can they keep their compass straight?
    Author: Semyon Dukach
    Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:30:29 +0000
    Link: https://thenextweb.com/news/ethical-dilemmas-tech-founders-compass-straight
    Podcast Download URL: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F07%2FTechEthics-e1720771879629.jpg&signature=368842b1683782ea210fe9720ac1968c

    [image 1]
    Tech bros are for the first time poised to become pivotal players in highly sensitive sectors: national security, space exploration, and more. Most recently, NATO’s €1B Innovation Fund announced investments in eight startups
    and VC firms with a focus on emerging military and defense technologies.  As the startup ecosystem has become more sophisticated, it is now starting to disrupt these tightly controlled sectors, which were until recently the domain
    of governments and legacy institutions. Take these examples: Space is quickly becoming the next battleground for geopolitics — and private companies are now
    dominating cosmic exploration. Military conflicts are being defined…

    This story continues[2] at The Next Web

    Links:
    [1]: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F07%2FTechEthics-e1720771879629.jpg&signature=368842b1683782ea210fe9720ac1968c (image)
    [2]: https://thenextweb.com/news/ethical-dilemmas-tech-founders-compass-straight?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)


    If you work for Nato or the Government, the ethical compass is already
    broken, which means that the "tech bros" will develop what they are told
    to develop, with or without AI, as long as money keeps rolling in.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Jul 13 07:16:11 2024
    On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:44:24 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    the ethical compass is already broken

    Military-industrial complex - describes the relationship between a
    country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen
    together as a vested interest which influences public
    policy.[1][2][3][4] A driving factor behind the relationship between
    the military and the defense-minded corporations is that both sides benefit--one side from obtaining weapons, and the other from being
    paid to supply them.[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

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