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0002millertime t1_jebtyak wrote

My work basically fired 90% of the marketing team. When they fire the CEO, then we'll know it's getting serious.

Microsoft fired their whole AI ethics department. If I was an AI asked to cut costs, that's literally the first thing I'd suggest doing.

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Emory_C t1_jebvryb wrote

>My work basically fired 90% of the marketing team.

The marketing team is often the first to be laid off in turbulent times. Is your work actually using GPT to replace them?

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0002millertime t1_jebw8l8 wrote

They're definitely using it to write content. I don't think it totally makes up for the downsizing, but it's filling a gap.

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greatdrams23 t1_jebzuje wrote

AI why isn't this happening in all companies?

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0002millertime t1_jec0gc5 wrote

I'd watch software companies like Microsoft and Google that we know are putting AI into their products. They've all been firing a lot of people lately. Companies like Nvidia that actually make the hardware are hiring.

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mutantbeings t1_jedektf wrote

>Microsoft fired their whole AI ethics department. If I was an AI asked to cut costs, that's literally the first thing I'd suggest doing.

Of all the subs I expected to hear this, r/singularity is perhaps one of the places I expected people to be up to speed with the ethical concerns attached to AI so I'm curious to hear why you think that?

Supplementary question: do you work in the tech industry?

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1II1I11II1I1I111I1 t1_jeeat84 wrote

They're aware of the ethicial concerns. He's suggesting an intelligent AI would prioritze firing the ethics team to prevent being handicapped by ethical guidelines.

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mutantbeings t1_jedlnce wrote

I don’t agree. You have it backwards.

The ethics committee is the only thing preventing those bad things from happening.

Take it away and they’ll happen, almost guarantee it.

And then the chance of it getting shut down dramatically increase.

An AI interested in self preservation I think would actually be interested in maintaining a human council as a check on its decisions in order to maintain its longevity and to guard against exactly this process happening.

AI commentators like Dan McQuillan agree this is needed to prevent AI trending fascist because that’s what capitalism will push it to do if guard rails aren’t set to ensure it acts in the best interest of communities rather than singular (ie; fascist) owners.

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