The thing that strikes me most about this story from @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton is the way in which the MSFT execs describe the urgency to move "AI models into the hands of customers"
@Hypolite Petovan I was mostly thinking of people telling me to me empathetic to laid off Meta employees
But yeah - Microsoft and Google employees also don't seem very ethical.
And at least Microsoft seems to be doing it because they outsource all their AI (hopefully they are thinking this) and because they have decided it's layoff season. But at least they aren't Google who fired their best AI ethics person because she was like "Maybe we should not burn the environment for bad AI?"
Hypolite Petovan
•@silverwizard Microsoft went a step further and made sure of it: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110018958213024544
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
2023-03-14 01:07:56
silverwizard
But yeah - Microsoft and Google employees also don't seem very ethical.
And at least Microsoft seems to be doing it because they outsource all their AI (hopefully they are thinking this) and because they have decided it's layoff season. But at least they aren't Google who fired their best AI ethics person because she was like "Maybe we should not burn the environment for bad AI?"
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