Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly

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As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone

Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part ofThe move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said., which is tasked with creating rules and principles to govern the company’s AI initiatives.

In recent years, the team designed a role-playing game called Judgment Call that helped designers envision potential harms that could result from AI and discuss them during product development. It was part of a larger “More recently, the team has been working to identify risks posed by Microsoft’s adoption of OpenAI’s technology throughout its suite of products.

Some members of the team pushed back. “I’m going to be bold enough to ask you to please reconsider this decision,” one employee said on the call. “While I understand there are business issues at play … what this team has always been deeply concerned about is how we impact society and the negative impacts that we’ve had. And they are significant.”

 

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Soon Microsoft will be ran by AI. Hopefully Windows 13 will have flawless code.

Wtf? Are they offloading entire ethical side things on OpenAI? Eitherway, this is still a terrible news. Seems like there is no job security anywhere these days.

Philosophy will gain a lot of rellevance and needs to be given now more attention than ever to create regulacions for technology, bases on ethics and principles of democracy

'You best start believing in Cyberpunk dystopias... you're in one'

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tomwarren When you see how awfully limited, mean, lazy and arrogant Bing gpt is compared to the real chatgpt, I would have fired them too.

its given that they'd chosen to ignore the implications !

tomwarren What’s weird is the AI chose the people on its own, without any human intervention. The AI then prepared the paperwork and sent out the notifications. Neat!

New Microsoft logo 🤖

What could possibly go wrong?

ethics went down the drain

tomwarren Good.

tomwarren Microsoft be like…

Anyone who uses AI takes on the assumed risk of using it. That has been obvious since its inception. However, as the tech evolves, if there are limited safeguards or lessened consideration for its impact, then that's something that need to be watched closely.

Here it comes, the big balancing act, don't forget your pinheads

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Well, that's not a good look.

Why am I not surprised by this? Ethics in AI is a necessity as in anything in life.

Should AI have bias?

Well this is looking bad 🙃

Skynet achievement unlocked😃

'Open the pod bay doors, HAL.' 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.'

sounds irresponsible

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