CJ Trowbridge

Ethical Artificial Intelligence

A recorded livestream discussion on ethical issues in generative artificial intelligence featuring CJ Trowbridge, Future Inifinitive, and The Real Cornpop.

My main takeaways of the topics discussed:

  • The practical impossibility of any real ban or limits in a post-international-law world
  • Lack of explicit consent vs fair use rights
  • Derivative work vs stolen work
  • Alignment
    • Elon assumes he can force AI to act like Stephen Miller; it’s more likely to act like the hundreds of thousands of administrative beurocrats who refused to go along with him.
  • Consolidation of power/ wealth
    • Epistemic Power
      • Centralized corporate/oligarch control over the social construction of truth and knowledge
      • The only truth is whatever serves capital
      • Bias and representation
        • What perspectives does a model built by {Sama, Elon, Zucc} ignore, exclude, or erase
    • Cloud Capital
      • Very large models are almost exclusively built/run by rent-seeking coprorations/oligarchs

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