Or crazy idea – more thorough testing before public release, with impact assessments for environment and mental health determining if anthropomorphic water ignoring tools disregarding human labor, agency and creativity should have been released at all. Short answer = no.
@johnchavens
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AI Messages Promoting Human Isolation Raise Ethical Concerns
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Social isolation is such a powerful force. That’s why it’s a pandemic. That’s why messages saying AI is better than humans, or will be, are so insidious. Or the messages saying AI can help people better than people can help themselves. To do what? Be more isolated.
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Sentient AI, Free Will, and Genuine Care for Humans
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One thing about wanting AGI or AI to be sentient is the hope that said sentient being will care about you. If it’s programmed to do so, there would be no free will or genuine care. Good news -humans may be hard to care for, but you and they are worth it. And sentient right now.
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Kindness Freezes Time: Embracing Vulnerability in Human Connection
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Kindness freezes time because one is required to truly be in a moment with someone for the consciousness of care to transpire. Thankfully it’s not a chore. It involves humility and vulnerability and – the wonderful news! You and your unique identity will always be welcome.
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Racist AI datasets in anthropomorphic tools cause mental health harms
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It looks great. I assume it would be conflation but also linking how said racism could present itself in an anthropomorphic way aka Anthropic stuff today would be helpful. Tools pretending sentience that utilize racist datasets could cause unique mental health harms.
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Human vs AI: Authenticity in Digital Communication
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Thank you for this. Your posts and podcast help keep me sane so I’m hoping you aren’t an AI chat bot. If you are, well done.
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Environmental Impact Assessments Required Before AI Deployment
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Yes. Can we require environmental impact assessments before any AI design can go public? Where companies demonstrate long term protection of water etc? Where people say “companies won’t like that” or “policy makers are too slow..” Those answers don’t work anymore.
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LLM Mental Health Safety: Testing Before Public Release Required
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Any LLM interacting with humans re their mental health should be tested for a long time before being released to the general public. If they cause harm, they shouldn’t be released. It’s not that complex. It’s about society saying we prioritize care, for planet and people, first.
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AI Ethics Demands Environmental Impact Assessments First
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So any AI Ethics folks of any stipe or background, please recognize this amazing reporting for whatit is – a clarion call to prioritize planet and people FIRST in the design of AI. Note insider say “ban” etc. But urging wide scale environmental impact assessments – YES.
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LLM Water Waste Unjustified Until Nuclear Energy Scales
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Experts agree nuclear will take anywhere from 10 or more years to scale and right NOW the water being used for LLM tools that,
@GaryMarcus and other trusted experts remind us DAILY are more flawed than helpful overall, is NOT justified. Period. We are WASTING water NOW.