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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:17 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   To all those folks asking why the "AI safety" and "AI ethics" crowds can't find common ground --- it's simple: The "AI safety" angle, which takes "AI" as something that is to be "raised" to be "aligned" with actual people is anathema to ethical development of the technology.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:11 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     A bunch of AI researchers high on their own supply wrote a ridiculous letter and got famous people including a certain billionaire man-child to sign, and in the process misappropriated our work. So we speak up and somehow we're at fault? I think NOT.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:12 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     Yes, we need regulation. But as we said:

     "It is indeed time to act: but the focus of our concern should not be imaginary "powerful digital minds." Instead, we should focus on the very real and very present exploitative practices of the companies claiming to build them, who are rapidly centralizing power and increasing social inequities."

     https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

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     Rasmus Fleischer repeated this.
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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:13 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     It's frankly infuriating to read a signatory to the "AI pause" letter complaining that the statement we released from the listed authors of the Stochastic Parrots paper somehow squandered the "opportunity" created by the "AI pause" letter in the first place.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:14 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     If the call for "AI safety" is couched in terms of protecting humanity from rogue AIs, it very conveniently displaces accountability away from the corporations scaling harm in the name of profits.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:15 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     If (even) the people arguing for a moratorium on AI development do so bc they ostensibly fear the "AIs" becoming too powerful, they are lending credibility to every politician who wants to gut social services by having them allocated by "AIs" that are surely "smart" and "fair".

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 00:54:16 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     #AIhype isn't the only problem, for sure, but it is definitely a problem and one that exacerbates others. If LLMs are maybe showing the "first sparks of AGI" (they are NOT) then it's easier to sell them as reasonable information access systems (they are NOT).

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