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by thisismyswamp 490 days ago
AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence
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Please do not mistake "AI ethics" for "AI safety", where the latter is about "Studying and reducing the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence" [1, 2].

[1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/ai-safety [2]: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk

>AI safety people worrying [...]

"AI safety people" are hardly a monolith. This is probably the first time I've seen "racism" being cited as a "AI safety" issue in months.