Re:Google Drops Pledge Not to Use AI for Weapons or Surveill...
by energy123 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:18PM
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Not a useful framing in my view. People follow private incentives. Private incentives are by default not perfectly aligned with external stakeholders. That leads to "evil" behavior. But it's not the people or the org, it's the incentives. You can substitute other people into the same system and get the same outcome.
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Re:Google Drops Pledge Not to Use AI for Weapons or Surveill...
by ninetyninenine on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:34PM
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Not useful, but ultimately true.
People have the incentive to not do evil and to do evil for money. When you abstract the evil away into 1 vote out of thousands then you abstract responsibility and everyone ends up in aggregate doing an inconsequential evil and it adds up to a big evil.
The tragedy of the commons.