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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by smnrchrds on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:27PM (#25532082)
> We already have a proper way of enforcing "very real" ways to curtail abuses, it's called passing laws.

And how is it decided what should become illegal? Just passing laws banning unethical things? Now we are back to square one deciding what is and isn't ethical.

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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by konjin on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:26PM (#25533366)
The ballot box.
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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by smnrchrds on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:06PM (#25533849)
But who writes the words that go on the ballots? Ballots are not like Ouija boards. Someone has to make a proposal for others to vote on. The person who writes that will be an ethicist, if not by title, then by the fact that they wrote the text of a proposal to ban something unethical.
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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by konjin on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:07PM (#25533857)
Who ever pays the politicians the most money.
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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by austinjp on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:42AM (#25536132)
Could you expand upon the ethical implications of this?
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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by konjin on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:55AM (#25536185)
No, they also pay the salaries of the ethicists at the universities.
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