This.
People should understand AI safety != AI ethics.
AI safety has two branches, AI ethics and AI alignment. Those two branches despise each other with intense passion.
The alignment branch (responsible for developing RLHF->ChatGPT) believes AI ethics is completely trivial, and distracts attention away from existential risks.
The ethics branch (responsible for all the media attention about racist AIs/bias etc) view alignment people as pie in the sky researchers whose results are irrelevant to society.
It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all. Stable diffusion does not default to creating black people (you have to insert black into the prompt), this has not caused mass social harm despite the tens of millions of users. Hence companies are unwilling to pay for these teams.
The other concerns, such as mass unemployment, or copyright of training material, are real, but they are better understood by economists, lawyers etc, rather than this awkward branch of AI ethics.
People should understand AI safety != AI ethics. AI safety has two branches, AI ethics and AI alignment. Those two branches despise each other with intense passion.
The alignment branch (responsible for developing RLHF->ChatGPT) believes AI ethics is completely trivial, and distracts attention away from existential risks.
The ethics branch (responsible for all the media attention about racist AIs/bias etc) view alignment people as pie in the sky researchers whose results are irrelevant to society.
It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all. Stable diffusion does not default to creating black people (you have to insert black into the prompt), this has not caused mass social harm despite the tens of millions of users. Hence companies are unwilling to pay for these teams.
The other concerns, such as mass unemployment, or copyright of training material, are real, but they are better understood by economists, lawyers etc, rather than this awkward branch of AI ethics.