>the engineer is usually imbued with ethics when they work at any firm. It’s that simple, you work at an airline manufacturer, your duty is to not cause harm, t

>the engineer is usually imbued with ethics when they work at any firm. It’s that simple, you work at an airline manufacturer, your duty is to not cause harm, test properly, it’s no different with AI. One point here is that there's no licensing requirement for AI engineers like you see in some other fields of engineering. As someone recently quipped on Twitter: > did you know that there are currently no licensing requirements in the US for training potentially world-threatening AI models, but there are in the state of Louisiana for selling flower arrangements https://nitter.net/littIeramblings/status/1730925237326565425#m https://nitter.net/littIeramblings/status/173092523732656542... In any case, what's been happening in AI engineering is significantly different than in other fields of engineering. There is no consensus as to the magnitude of AI risk, although extinction probability estimates are generally high: https://nitter.net/AISafetyMemes/status/1729892336782524676#m https://nitter.net/AISafetyMemes/status/1729892336782524676#... In practice, AI engineers self-select into different places of employment depending on how worried they are. If you're not very worried, you work at Meta. If you're significantly worried, you work at Anthropic or even someplace like MIRI. Most AI labs have a safety culture that's somewhere in between those extremes. [Obviously, from the point of view of preventing extinction, this situation seems unsatisfactory.] With regard to the point about the board -- their job was to supervise the CEO, and they say Sam was making that difficult. See https://nitter.net/hlntnr/status/1730034020140912901#m https://nitter.net/hlntnr/status/1730034020140912901#m