From TechCrunch, March 13:
Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
Microsoft laid off an entire team dedicated to guiding AI innovation that leads to ethical, responsible and sustainable outcomes. The cutting of the ethics and society team, as reported by Platformer, is part of a recent spate of layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company.
The elimination of the team comes as Microsoft invests billions more dollars into its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind art- and text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, and revamps its Bing search engine and Edge web browser to be powered by a new, next-generation large language model that is “more powerful than ChatGPT and customized specifically for search.”
The move calls into question Microsoft’s commitment to ensuring its product design and AI principles are closely intertwined at a time when the company is making its controversial AI tools available to the mainstream....
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Still, I suppose, not as bad as these:- Seton Hall Ethics Professor Arrested, Fired
- "Bishop known for exorcisms resigns after falling for writer of satanic erotica"
- Meanwhile, In the USA: FBI Funded Neo-Nazi Satanist Book Publisher
- Hedge Fund Code Of Ethics Being Developed
- For Reals: The July 2000 Edition of the Enron Code of Ethics handbook
- "EY Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams and Tried to Cover It Up, Will Pay a Record Fine for Naughtiness"
