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And what's new here? Any technology can be used both ways.

Well, you can kill someone with a lawnmower if you try enough, sure.

But some technologies are more apt to be used in bad ways than others, and more nightmarish in the uses they enable.

(E.g. nuclear technology, in the form of bombs, can enable total annihilation of the planet. Glass-making technology, not so much -- what, we'll fill the planet with jars?)

yes, no news, you can use ai for bad or good things, guns to save people from bad people or do bad things etc..

Guns are a bit different because they are designed to kill. I fail to see how you can save lives with machine guns unless you are in a war zone

I fail to see how you can save lives with machine guns unless you are in a war zone

Being attacked by a pack of wild animals. Not that I care about the politics, but it immediately jumped into my mind.

Do you really need machine guns to scare off a pack of wild animals ?

Defending against a [lynch] mob

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