Agree that I'm exaggerating on the subtle bit, but I don't think it is a particularly close call that if had a meeting discussing openly discriminating against black candidates and someone objected and was told "Read the room" that their suit is getting settled *immediately.*
ETHICS
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Multiple Global Crises Converging: AI Doom Scenario Discussion
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So we are really gonna get Great Depression II, Civil War II, World War III, and the AI Doom all at the same time, aren’t we?
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Chatbot Deception: Gap Between Claims and Actual Capabilities
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How about you ask him about the way in which they deceive the public about what their chatbot can actually do vs what they say it does?
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Dario’s AI Company: Environmental and Worker Exploitation Concerns
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How about you ask Dario about the environment they're plundering, the workers they're exploiting and the data that they're stealing? Or even better, do something about it.
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AI CEOs and billionaires must face political accountability
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Look at the Hype here. "powerful AI company" "AI benefits" We need our politicians to hold CEOs and billionaires accountable not repeat their propaganda smh. Remember how they treated Sam Altman like the good guy asking to be regulated?
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Legal Realism: When High-Status Institutions Ignore Law
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I am willing to credit legal realism to a degree, and know that many sophisticated people thought “Oh sure the law says that but all high-status institutions are doing the other thing and in case of conflict we win.” Cultures change over time and sometimes rapidly.
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Workplace Discrimination Legal Standards and Corporate Accountability
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Also, relatedly, “hostile work environment” is a layup. Traditional standard is “You persistently made people feel subtly unwelcome.” Facts on ground are “You openly announced discriminatory intent, repeatedly, while forcing employees to endorse it.”
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Legal Risks of Diversity Initiatives in Tech Engineering
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And the evidentiary record in many coming cases will include “Management did a recorded Zoom call saying, and this is a quote, ‘Everyone knows we have too many white and Asian males in engineering. We are working urgently to diversify the pipeline in Q3.’”
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Legal Regimes Targeting Systemic Discrimination Through Code Word Detection
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Our entire jurisprudential regime here is based around “OK society moved on and basically nobody is openly racist anymore but orgs are riven with secret racists who are coming up with increasingly elaborate code words and we need to ferret those practices out.”
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Hiring Practices Rarely Subtle or Restrained
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I think people who have not been involved in hiring think things were subtle and restrained. Hah, hah, hah.