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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: AI & Morality
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Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 13:10:24 EDT
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  There are some of us who work for the US government who are very
aware of the threats of exporting high technology and deeply concerned
about the free exchange of data and information and the benefits of
such exchange.
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It is not clear whether the author of this article is concerned about
the increasing restrictions that are being placed on the necessary
flow of information required for the advancement of technology,
or concerned about the fact that people outside the USA may find out
what people inside are doing.

I hope the former concern is the one intended! We (the Western world)
can easily lose whatever technological advantages we have if we go
overboard in restricting information flow.
We win by being firstest with the mostest, not by crawling into a shell
and hugging our antique ideas.

Martin Taylor