Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety - WTOP News
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can’t be trusted to guarantee the safety of systems we don’t yet understand and that are prone to “chaotic…
  • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. Those who create and profit from a product are most interested in making money off it and will avoid regulations and restrictions as much as possible. Commercial airlines aren’t safe because the companies wanted to keep their customers safe, but rather because the regulations were put in place after all kinds of accidents.

  • crypticthree@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Translation: please set up expensive and convoluted regulatory schemes to prevent any small company from competing with us.

    • rosenjcb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. So much of this AI safety talk is science fiction tier gloom and doom that is used by advocates, critics, businesses, etc as a means to push an agenda. I’m just here fine tuning HuggingFace models, happy that the model didn’t puke out word soup.