OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI - The Verge
The preparedness team will address several potential threats.
Microsoft recently disbanded its AI Ethics team in March, while Google’s leading ethics researchers parted ways with the company in 2021 amidst a controversy.
From a business perspective, such teams often pose more of a risk than a benefit. By meticulously documenting inherent risks, they eliminate the option of plausible deniability, creating a trail of evidence that the business was aware of these risks yet chose to proceed regardless.
I estimate this one will last approximately 12 months…
One step ahead of you. Because of how difficult the calculations are for something as complex as this, I constructed my own AI to assess me the catastrophic risks of AI. He assures me all is fine and to go about your daily business.
Well, if Mark Zuckerberg is all in you know it's going to blindside billions of people in some nasty, nasty way.