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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was

A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.

People are far more concerned with the real-world implications of ethics: governance structures, accountability, how their data is used, jobs being lost, etc. It was a sketchy practice and there was a huge consumer backlash against it, leading to the privacy cop-out phrase: “we never share your data with third parties”. If we give companies unending hype, near unlimited government and scientific resources, all of our personal data including thoughts and behavior patterns, how do we know their leaders will do what we want them to, and not try to subvert us and… take over the world?

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