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J. Naughton
Well, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agents

Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI,
          Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy  (http:www.isti.cnr.it)

          FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)

CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)

          https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella
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          The quest for a war-free world
            has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we
            learn  how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by
            kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn
            how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the
            expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the
            beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this
            great task.

          Above all, remember your
            humanity.

          -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

          

          I don't quite know whether it is
            especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial
            Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for
            euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of
            computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make
            judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own
            superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to
            these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we
            anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work
            and, what is more important, to identify and become
            conscious of its end use.  […] One can't escape this state
            without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do?
            What is the final application and use of the products of my
            work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have
            contributed to this use?"

          -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not
            without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986]

-- Damiano Verzulli e-mail: damiano@verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html