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OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month

44 pointsby ilamonttoday at 12:23 PM59 commentsview on HN

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fidotrontoday at 12:40 PM

> Before working at OpenAI, she was Meta’s chief ethicist

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2PqboPPmKegvanxtoday at 1:33 PM

the only shocking thing to me is that they still had even a single one.

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parpfishtoday at 1:02 PM

their only ethicist left? gasp!

now they are exactly like every other company that has zero ethicists on staff and expect the employees to weigh the ethical ramifications of their work.

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danlitttoday at 12:33 PM

> ethical approaches to model development, how humans interact with AI and debate over machine consciousness

So, pseudo-philosophical mumbo jumbo. There is of course no-one responsible for the ethical framework of the company's actions, because it is a company, and therefore amoral at best and immoral at worst.

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neuroticnews25today at 1:08 PM

High priestess of play-pretend, lmao.

champagnepapitoday at 1:01 PM

No ethics left at OpenAi huh? Lolol

roschdaltoday at 12:36 PM

Capitalism has not concept of ethics.

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NordStreamYachttoday at 1:47 PM

Sam Altman is still there, right? Who needs another ethicist? Sam of all trades.

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thenatureboytoday at 12:29 PM

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ltbarcly3today at 12:57 PM

Oh no, if only the world had more ethicists on staff. If only Nazi Germany had someone with a thorough education in ethics on the payroll!

It's performative. She got paid more to shill for a different massive amoral mega-corporation. Don't be stupid.