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OpenAI, Google DeepMind insiders have serious warnings about AI
In an open letter, whistleblowers say that these "frontier AI companies" need to support a culture of open criticism.
They wrote that, due to a lack of obligation to share information with government bodies and regulators, "current and former employees are among the few people who can hold [these corporations] accountable to the public", and said that many of them "fear various forms of retaliation" for doing so. The signatories asked for advanced AI companies to commit to certain principles, including the facilitation of an anonymous process for employees to raise risk-related concerns and that the companies will support "a culture of open criticism", so long as trade secrets are protected in the process. In the letter, the group also touched upon the risks of AI that they recognize: from the entrenchment of existing inequalities, to the exacerbation of misinformation, to the possibility of human extinction.
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