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Comment on Ask HN: Why are AI ethics/safety teams being disbanded

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CEOs and Investors are realising that the interest of AI safety teams mostly aren’t aligned with corporate goals. They were good for press as long as AGI was a distant dream but now as the AI wars start over the big tech companies, there is no need for self-sabotage. The drama at openai was likely the death sentence for serious backing of those teams.

mostly aren’t aligned with corporate goals.

Sounds like what happened to social media. Making them pleasant, healthy spaces does not align with immediate profit maximizing.

This is precisely why Meta now has the policy (ironically called narrative excellence ) to have no *moral* or legal obligation to publish the results of its internal user safety studies[1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-facebook-teens-harassment...

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