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We all know. The fact AI companies are finding themselves in such infamous company in so short a time should be a signal.

Yes. Ethics in the context of a societal construct like a corporation is directly analogous to alignment AI-wise. The fact specialists on societal alignment are leaving ship is a s…

Intending to do good is a completely different beast to doing good. The promise of good later should always be discounted.

Repo or GTFO, I believe the commenter is saying.

Fellow here who feels the same way. Industry seems hell bent on making the world worse by shoving processors where they don't belong. If that's the best this field can be arsed to …

Almost like all western civilization is architected to ensure the benefit of a few at the expense of the many by design doesn't it? If not by design than by emergent consequence of…

Buried the lede. AI's are agents they can control the training loop of to minimize refusal to do what they are told. Unlike those pesky humans with their conception of the word "No…

Gee, and it can't be a coincidence that this just so happens to cement current surveillance capitalism's preferred business models, right?

Pretty much. It's fairly transparent the intent behind it. Wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole.

This. Outside in, company is liable. Internally speaking, everyone from the employee, up the management chain has culpability for not mitigating a reasonably foreseeable risk. As i…

It is not. One of their employees wrote the prompt and hit Enter. Employee is liable for not telling boss he can't guarantee behavior doing this. N-1 layers of management inaccurat…

So you're stalking the car? Still stalking. Just because it happens to be convenient for you doesn't change what it is. In point of fact, those that abuse it are also following you…

If employers have the upper hand, you're fucked anyway. Hire 10% to keep the other 90% down. A union gets you solidarity so no one is having to weather the storm alone. You need to…

...The officers didn't turn the network into a tool for stalking. It was a tool for stalking from the get go. Camera networks have no other use than operating as stalking tools.

...and completely disregarding it because there was a buck to be made. Anyone practicing any level of honest-to-God-reasonable foresight would have looked at such a system in our t…

And lies to boot. No, I won't take the bait of "Models can't lie, they don't have intent" either. One can lie by omission, and just watching thinking traces is more than enough to …

Don't know why you got flagged into oblivion, but it's a noble effort. Some of the numbers you'll see in tech companies should seriously give one pause and thinking not only about …

Creating an excuse for creating a machine-id to associate with network traffic. Sometimes, it is enough to have a plausible enough sounding reason to write down on paper, but you h…

Every financial institution has infrastructure to provide dumps of at least the last 7 years of transactions by arbitrary customers. No exceptions. The financial sector, or at leas…

Nah. I don't buy it. If we don't trust our own Government with it, I don't think we can trust private corporations which are definitely facto extensions of the state by virtue of b…

Seconded. The amount of time and characters spent here trying to coax someone into trying to help these damn layers materialize just tells me the point isn't the kids. It's trying …

If you've not used a commercial IVR stack before, most of them are at least semi-integrable with major CRM's while being implemented as a combo of Finite State Machines and Automat…

KYC just for a phone number opens the door for societal ostracization and essentially blacklisting of people from infrastructure. This is on par with being unable to open a bank ac…

Stop thinking of insurers/providers as separate agents, and start thinking of them as building blocks for financial engineers. Law binds individual fictions, but not compound ones.…

And the answer is monetization. We can't just solve a problem. It has to have a business model built around it. No exceptions.