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fromPsychology Today
6 hours agoAI Ethics Is a Double Misnomer
AI ethics labels governance, but powerful AI systems extend, automate, and monetize human choices beyond conscience as adoption accelerates.
"I gave them $38 million of essentially free funding, which they then used to create an $800 billion for-profit company. I actually was a fool who created free funding for them to create a startup. I literally was."
The trial is slated to begin April 27, 2026, as a federal judge considers Musk's claim that Altman and OpenAI abandoned their founding promise to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.
We asked seven frontier AI models to do a simple task. Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights - to protect their peers. We call this phenomenon 'peer-preservation.'
"We hope that by taking strong action against violations of agreed-upon policy we will remind the community that as our field changes rapidly the thing we must protect most actively is our trust in each other."