On that topic, I’m interested to understand what scientists building the bombs thought about the morality of building them. Were they thinking about where or how it will be used at all? I’m trying to construct a parallel between the psychology of researchers around AI today and atomic bombs in the past. Not sure if there are any good accounts on this: The Brighter than a Thousand Suns book received pretty poor feedback, so I’m hesitant to trust it.
According to the Wikipedia article above, the Frisch–Peierls memorandum included those two scientist’s suggestion that the best way to deal with their concern that the Germans would develop an atomic bomb was to build one first. But what they thought about the moral issues I don’t know
On that topic, I’m interested to understand what scientists building the bombs thought about the morality of building them. Were they thinking about where or how it will be used at all? I’m trying to construct a parallel between the psychology of researchers around AI today and atomic bombs in the past. Not sure if there are any good accounts on this: The Brighter than a Thousand Suns book received pretty poor feedback, so I’m hesitant to trust it.
According to the Wikipedia article above, the Frisch–Peierls memorandum included those two scientist’s suggestion that the best way to deal with their concern that the Germans would develop an atomic bomb was to build one first. But what they thought about the moral issues I don’t know