Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s kinda funny how these dogs went from cute and interesting dobot development to tools of the military industrial complex. The people who designed these are disgusting and depraved.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Not really. The people who designed these are nerds like us that want to push the boundaries of science. If they don’t do it someone else will.
The people that choose what to apply them too are the ones with poor morals. You could build these things and only sell them to places that use them for monitoring things like they do in dangerous factories these days.
moustachio@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nah not buying it. The people who built them are depraved scum. There’s a certain point they definitely knew these were going to be used for shit like this, and they kept doing it anyways.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Think about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. Yes, the research created a weapon of massive destruction, but the same underlying science led to nuclear energy, medical isotopes, and countless other peaceful applications.
Most engineers aren’t working to create harm; they’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. The bad uses are real, but they don’t erase all the good that comes from that knowledge. The moral responsibility for how technology is applied sits with those who choose to deploy it, not the nerds building it.