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There are many types of safety. For example, protecting your profits! I'd imagine that if we trace the money back these organisations will look a lot like lobby
by roenxi 3y ago
There are many types of safety. For example, protecting your profits! I'd imagine that if we trace the money back these organisations will look a lot like lobbyists for existing companies in the AI space. I recall Microsoft's licence enforcement effort was done with that sort of scheme, I think they used the BSA [0]. It has been a while though so maybe it was a different group.
Anyway, point being, if they can lobby for something unpopular under a different brand, that is how to do it. Much less PR risk.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance
- Xelynega 3y agoI have to believe this is the case. The vast majority of "ai safety" news I see is about some dumb shit someone is getting called out for supporting and the responses are always "ai safety is such a joke since they focus on these issues instead of real issues". Who does this benefit to have the "popular ai safety" news/people be ridiculous? It's not furthering the issues people seem to care about, but it does give a bunch of ammunition for Microsoft/openai/etc. fans to use to shutdown any discussion of AI safety issues.