Microsoft lays off entire AI ethics team while going all out on ChatGPT

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A new report indicates Microsoft will expand AI products, but axe the people who make them ethical.

“I am concerned about the timing of this decision, given that Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI and is using ChatGPT in its search engine Bing and across other services,” Duri Long, an assistant professor in communications focusing on human/AI interaction at Northwestern University, writes tovia email. “This technology is new, and we are still learning about its implications for society.

“People would look at the principles coming out of the office of responsible AI and say, ‘I don’t know how this applies,’” a former employee told[Related:“It’s not that [Ethics & Society] is going away—it’s that it’s evolving,” Microsoft’s corporate VP of AI reportedly assured remaining Ethics & Society members following the October 2022 reorg.

 

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Wire cutters 😏✅

Ethics lol

Having an uneasy feeling...

Lays off entire Ethics team, still holds the Office of Responsible AI, pure comedy

We need to cover this story on our website... Or maybe we already did? ;)

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