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jloverich t1_jcdnq8k wrote

They seem to be punted as soon as you have a good product you want to sell that clashes with the ethics committee. It seems like the ethecists might be a bit too ethical for businesses. Axon, which does ai work [and tasers] for the police force I believe had a bunch of their ethics team resign.

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I_will_delete_myself t1_jcdsoy6 wrote

Lol AI ethics probably seems like just paying Philosophers from the prospective of a corporation. There are already plenty on Youtube and social media

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VelveteenAmbush t1_jce5y2v wrote

If only it was like paying philosophers. More often it is like paying anti-corporate activists to sit inside the corporation and cause trouble. There's no incentive for them to stay targeted at things that are actually unethical -- nor even any agreement on what those things are. So they have a structural incentive to complain and block, because that is how they demonstrate impact and accrue power.

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