This article suggests that research in 3D rendering contributed to machine- assisted assassinations of children in Gaza.
It is a topic very close to my heart. When I was starting my academic career at the dept. of Digital Storytelling of ZGDV in Darmstadt, Germany, I took a lot of inspiration by colleagues from the Institute of Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. Their work was funded by DARPA and a lot of it was about military training. Let alone the fact that training military personnel through storytelling is not about assassinations at all, we've had conversations about this. In one we were told something along the lines of: You European have [what is now Horizon]. In the US our federal funding is DARPA [coming from the US DoD].
This incident is one of several that persuaded me to a widespread narrative in information security. It states that making research open access is a way to contain its destructive use. I still tend to believe so. Research at Pixar and the ICT we all publicly available at their websites. Would you agree that tracing the blame down to people that invented technologies that have subsequently emerged as dual use is misleading? I still think that assassinations of children and civilians in Gaza or elsewhere are a direct consequence of a chain of political, commercial and military decisions. This is where responsibility needs to be investigated.
