alt Hacker NewsIME companies hire an ethics team to say they have an ethics team. The ethics team has no sway, no influence, and will never be able to move the business. They will try, and they will make reasonable recommendations, but the company will say, "that costs money..." and not take them.
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If you ever feel like your job is useless, remember that raytheon has an ethics team.
Scapegoat team (when working for an obviously unethical company).
Maybe in this case all they needed an ethics team for was to teach the LLM about ethics?
> They will try, and they will make reasonable recommendations, but the company will say, "that costs money..." and not take them.
> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair
Think I first saw that on a usenet post, as true now as then and just as true as it was in the 1930's when he wrote it (in at least that form).
OpenAI was probably able to at least pretend that her role mattered... until they let their AI autonomously hack a rival company, then used the incident to score marketing points. I'm not surprised she left.