Assigning ethics and safety to the AI teams in question is a little like assigning user privacy to advertising analytics teams - responsible AI is in direct con

Assigning ethics and safety to the AI teams in question is a little like assigning user privacy to advertising analytics teams - responsible AI is in direct conflict with their natural goals and will _never_ get any serious consideration. I heard about one specific ratchet effect directly from an AI researcher. The ethics/risk oriented people get in direct internal conflict with the charge-forward people because one wants to slow down and the other wants to speed up. The charge-ahead people almost always win because it’s easier to get measurable outcomes for organization goals when one is not worrying about ethical concerns. (As my charge-ahead AI acquaintance put it, AI safety people don’t get anything done.) If you want something like ethics or responsibility or safety to be considered, it’s essential to split it out into its own team and give that team priorities aligned with that mission. Internally I expect that Meta is very much reducing responsible AI to a lip service bullet point at the bottom of a slide full of organizational goals, and otherwise not doing anything about it.