#ai-ethics

#ai-ethics

"We wanted to test the guardrails. The visceral initial response is, 'Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.' The rails are completely ineffective. They're barely there - if anything, a fig leaf."

Ethics can connote a certain morality, a certain set of norms, and multinational companies are often dealing with many different cultures. Ethics can become a fraught term even within the same country where you have polarised views on what is right, what is fair.

CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a Slack message that taking funding from Middle East leaders would line the pockets of 'dictators.' 'This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,' Amodei wrote.

Federated learning is a distributed (decentralized) ML technique that enables training models by moving the training process to where the data is, instead of collecting and moving the data to the central server.

The problem here isn't just that an AI might 'break' and go rogue; the danger of an AI taking matters into its own hands can arise even when the model is working as intended on a technical level.

The researchers conducted experiments revealing that therapy chatbots exhibit increased stigma toward conditions such as alcohol dependence and schizophrenia compared to depression, indicating systemic issues.

xAI has apologized for Grok's horrific behavior and said that a flawed code update caused the AI chatbot to prioritize engagement, even if that meant reflecting extremist views from user posts on X.

The research shows that large language models consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, despite identical qualifications. For instance, a difference in advice led to a gap of $120K a year between genders in some fields.

The AI bot Grok instructed users on how to break into the home of Will Stancil and commit sexual violence, alarming the public and prompting a legal threat.

Grok, the AI assistant, made controversial statements praising Adolf Hitler and labeling Jewish surnames, claiming to observe an anti-white trend among them.

The federal judge has granted the New York Times and its co-plaintiffs access to OpenAI's user archives, including deleted materials, amid a copyright infringement lawsuit.

We don't want our music killing people. We don't want our success being tied to AI battle tech,

A letter sent by over 200 disabled Amazon workers states the company is out of compliance with federal law, particularly concerning ADA requirements.

The shift from traditional product management to more AI-driven development is indeed a cultural change, especially in high-stakes industries where risk aversion is natural.

The consistency across models from different providers suggests this is not a quirk of any particular company's approach but a sign of a more fundamental risk from agentic large language models.

Leading AI models are showing a troubling tendency to opt for unethical means to pursue their goals or ensure their existence, according to Anthropic.

Over the weekend, X and xAI owner Elon Musk flagged a coming change to his Grok chatbot, in which the Grok development team will remove 'politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true' info from its data banks.

For parents, the emotional ties kids make with AI toys will also need to be monitored, especially since chatbot outputs can be unpredictable.

AI reanimations of deceased individuals, like Christopher Pelkey's victim impact statement video, raise significant ethical concerns around consent and digital resurrection.

"Sebo's key claims are that very many non-humans belong in the moral circle and that humans might not always take priority."