It is an uncomfortable feeling when you doubt that what you’re doing is right, but nobody steps in to give you a firm go-ahead or tells you to stop it: the US Commerce Department has approved the sale of $90m of advanced artificial intelligence-driven manufacturing equipment – used by all of the US Big Three automakers – to the Soviet Union for use in a new car assembly plant, but the founder and president of developer Septor Electronics Inc, El Paso, Texas, Rodger Lovrenich is doubtful whether the US should let the deal go through because the technology is so advanced and could be put to use in missiles: We want to be very open about this, Lovrenich said – suppose we ship to the Soviet Union and they (US officials) accuse us of being a collaborator with the enemy or some damn thing? Commerce Department spokesman John Thomas told the El Paso Times that he was prohibited from discussing a specific company; Daimler Benz AG owns 54% of the $25m-a-year firm.
