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Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0].

It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian citizens and to insist the tool not be used automatically to kill a human without a human in the loop. Those are unreasonable demands by an unreasonable regime.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963