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It's implied to be included in 'other questions', and that whether AI is useful to development efforts is the only question being considered for whether to permit its use.
Not sure if that's really _acknowledging_ the problem.
If he's taking a clear position that the controversies over whether AI is a net negative for society may have merit but still are not going to be considered because that sort of thing is not the priority of the project, it seems reasonable to not lay them all out or get into why AI may or may not be overall bad. You can say that choice is wrong, but it isn't an evasive statement.
I mentioned this in another thread, but if Linus starts acknowledging the ethical questions of where good code is coming from, things unravel fast. Microsoft is a major contributor. So are plenty of defense, oil, industrial prison complex, etc. Someone overtly evil is contributing code.
Further just the pure tech industry isn't free from sin, Intel and AMD contribute lots to the Kernel and they certainly utilize slave or child labor at some point in chip production.
There are no good people within any part of the tech industry and yet AI is the line? Is it because that's the worst evil in our industry or is it because this one is the most loud and inconvenient to us?