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Posted by ilamont 1 day ago

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining(www.ft.com)
https://archive.ph/W48UV

https://aimagazine.com/news/why-did-openai-head-of-ethics-ch...

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parpfish 1 day ago|
their only ethicist left? gasp!

now they are exactly like every other company that has zero ethicists on staff and expect the employees to weigh the ethical ramifications of their work.

podgietaru 1 day ago||
What companies do you think expect their employees to weigh the ethical ramifications of their work?

I’d argue a lot of them expect the opposite. To suppress the ethical concerns.

Even in recent memories you had Mark Zuckerberg telling his employees to use pirated sources. And executives at fossil fuel companies have to act unethically.

asadotzler 18 hours ago||
Food testing? Hospitals? Childcare? Pharmacists? How about "clergy"? I could go on and on.

Do you believe that no one in management in these fields pushes the importance of ethics?

podgietaru 16 hours ago||
I think that individuals are capable of making ethical choices. I think that relying on individuals within for-profit businesses to make ethical decisions for the entire company is absolutely insane.

Food-testing: There's literally a parasite going around right now. Look at the response from some of the for profit businesses that was allowed to happen.

Hospitals: It is not ethical to deny patients care based on their insurance.

Clergy: The cover up of child sexual abuse scandals.

Childcare: lots of examples of sub-par care given to save money.

jdiff 1 day ago||
I think we can look upon the collective works of the corporations of the world and agree that the employees do not do that, nor are they expected to.
TeriyakiBomb 23 hours ago||
I mean clearly she was doing a bad job. I’m shocked this was even a position there.
scottLobster 23 hours ago||
Lol, Sam Altman has had an ethics team this whole time?

Her typical day: "No Sam, you can't just publicly screw over everyone and get rid of all the jobs, the peasants care about that sort of thing and if they get angry enough we'll have real problems. No we can't just kill them all, why would you suggest that?"

edu 22 hours ago|
Before Altman she worked for Zuckerberg. What will be next?
harladsinsteden 22 hours ago|||
Elon might want someone like her...
cflewis 22 hours ago|||
Time to put in a call to Ellison.
Laurel1234 20 hours ago||
I think Oracle stock would plummet if Ellison got caught pretending to care about ethics. Not that it'd happen lol
freejazz 21 hours ago||
Because it has to be a horrible job over there
skullone 21 hours ago||
lol, head of ethics at OpenAI? what a spurious role, I wish I could get in on the grift
0xDEAFBEAD 7 hours ago||
Yet another event to add to https://www.openaifiles.org/
simonw 22 hours ago||
> The departure was first reported by the Financial Times [...] According to Business Insider, OpenAI has reorganised its safety, product and research teams numerous times [...] Chloé told IE Insights, a social media channel of the Spanish IE University, in March [...] A June article from The Economist highlights that [...]

Not a single link to any of those. That's just rude.

neuroticnews25 1 day ago||
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weberer 18 hours ago|
This was the first post on HN to make me actually laugh out loud.
fenestella 7 hours ago||
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