AI safety teams that are primarily concerned with stuff like racial fairness make me feel like I would if skyscraper structural safety teams were concerned primarily with racial fairness - really fucking unsettled
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Hi Aella! AI safety teams’ concerns about race are more accurately characterized by the prevention of the exasturbation of existing racial inequities. This is merely a part of the total scope of what AI safety teams focus on.
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Not even die but just so much strife in general is worrying let alone all that other stuff, been feeling this since a month before covid hit Seattle and hit here first so early 2020
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AI "ethicists' and "safety teams" are really woke political activists.
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Which AI companies? I don't think there is more than a 0.0001% chance of an image generation AI causing people death. So yeah they probably should focus more on the racial fairness problems that actually are a very possible problem with that sort if AI today.
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I think the race-problem and the killing-a-bunch-of-people problem could be essentially the same problem. Namely, unintended consequences. How do you teach an AI everything you do not want it to do?
The only way AI would be involved in life/death scenarios in the near future is in medicine and we really really need a non-biased AI for that. We are not giving a gun to an autonomous robot in our lifetime
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Considering it wasn't that long ago that AI consistently did not even recognize many PoC as people in an image I see why you'd make sure it's addressed up front.
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The headline statements on AI safety mention race issues before anything else including on the websites of OpenAI, Deep Mind, and the U.S. Whitehouse.
I think it’s fair to say, then, that race issues are the marketing focus of AI safety teams.
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