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>>JimDab+(OP)
I don’t quite buy your Cyberpunk utopia where the Megacorp finally rids us of those pesky ethics qualms (or ”shackles“, as you phrased it.) Microsoft can now proceed without the guidance of a council that actually has humanities interests in mind, not only those of Microsoft shareholders. I don’t know whether all that caution will turn out to have been necessary, but I guess we’re just gleefully heading into whatever lies ahead without any concern whatsoever, and learn it the hard way.

It’s a bit tragic that Ilya and company achieved the exact opposite of what they intended apparently, by driving those they attempted to slow down into the arms of people with more money and less morals. Well.

>>9dev+w9
I don't know any of these people's intentions but I definitely have an inate distrust of whoever brands themselves as "a council that actually has humanities interests in mind". Can you get any more populist than that?

>>vasco+ys
>"a council that actually has humanities interests in mind".

Please fuckin don't. I do not want yet another entity to tell me how to live my life.

>>FpUser+bF
Oh, cut it. We're talking about a non-profit organisation that wants to keep the pace of scientific progress on AGI research slow enough to make time for society to gauge the ethical implications on an actual AGI, should it emerge.

Nobody is telling you how to live your life, unless your life's goal is to erect Skynet.

>>9dev+sI
>"We're talking about a non-profit organisation that wants to keep the pace of scientific progress on AGI research slow enough to make time for society to gauge the ethical implications on an actual AGI, should it emerge."

Or so they say. I have no reason to trust them. It is not some little thing we are talking about