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If there's money to be made, and there certainly is, it will be perverted to misuse as are so many other technologies.*
Computerish related examples:
Take, for example, the cookie and how it's now used to gather information instead of just store it.
Take for example the pixel beacon, which is exploiting internet graphics, again to gather information.
Email for Nigerian scammers, spammers, and "send to everyone you know"
"Smart TV" - Grandpa Samsung is watching you!
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Won't it override its own security mechanism?
I'm pretty sure Skynet had an off switch as well 
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Skynet is currently bidding against the Cylons for getting the rights to exterminate us.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Remember that Mr Data had an off switch, but later he removed it citing "inconvenience".
Although that story is fictional it does highlight a situation that is with us already; software tends to run continuously to deliver "improved user experience" or whatever and often won't stop even when asked nicely.
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Not to forget what foolishly removing R2D2's security bolt led to...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Think about our projects right now.. how many of us decide what's going in, and how it'll work? In most places it's managers, salespeople, HR, etc. who dictate how things will be done.. we're just the monkey's sat at the keyboards.
AI won't be any different, it'll all be owned and decided upon by people higher up than us. Don't want to code something that may be unethical? Well, there's plenty of developers that will (and more than likely, cheaper). 
Hey, but at least it's Monday!
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I work for a bank, they use analytics to better increase their fee base service their clientele. Is it legal, absolutely, is it ethical, I truly do not have the answer to that.
I see meetings where management are delighted when they can identify a new target market with some esoteric product they have invented. Free market at work I guess!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Super Superman wrote: In most places it's managers, salespeople, HR, etc. who dictate how things will be done.
I've never been asked to implement an unethical algorithm, but I agree wholeheartedly with you in that it's not in our hands to control how the software that we've built is used. Aside from implementing general security safeguards, nothing prevents a user of the software that I've built from misusing it.
+5 
/ravi
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