<story><title>Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-and-advocacy-exploring-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mankash666</author><text>This is an unpopular opinion here, but the facts stand.&lt;p&gt;Mozilla makes money disappear. Their 2016 revenues were in excess of $520M, and their claimed output was the Quantum browser.&lt;p&gt;The two largest R&amp;amp;D verticals seem to be their browser and the codecs group. That still doesn&amp;#x27;t account for expenses of $520M in 2016, and much much more in 2017.&lt;p&gt;Where is all the money going, Mozilla?</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-and-advocacy-exploring-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s-shellfish</author><text>While I believe there are real dangers AI can cause, I don&amp;#x27;t know how you&amp;#x27;d go about proving such a thing without recreating the problem in a different constructed variant.&lt;p&gt;Psychology and sociology are &amp;#x27;soft&amp;#x27; sciences because you can&amp;#x27;t test people psychologically and sociologically in &amp;#x27;hard&amp;#x27; ways without seriously crossing some serious ethical boundaries.&lt;p&gt;It could be argued that a lot of the decisions being made that back the design in  contemporary infrastructures already are engaged in this sort of testing and  behavioral modification, in ways that seem innocent from the onset, but yet still propagate across social systems in ways that are far too chaotic and complex to forecast.</text></comment>