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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 20:00:53 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Paris Marx

   @parismarx Take a group of people, strip them of individual responsibility and you get a mob. Now give them a single extractive/exploitative goal (quarter on quarter profit growth) and you’ve created an institutional sociopath. It’s not that we haven’t been able to teach corporations ethics. The corporate form was specifically created as a shield so profit seekers wouldn’t be hampered by ethical concerns. Ethics, in a corporate context, is synonymous with public relations.

   • Paris Marx (parismarx@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 20:00:54 JST Paris Marx

     “There are industry observers talking about the need for AIs to have a sense of ethics … I find these suggestions ironic given that we as a society have failed to teach corporations a sense of ethics.” — Ted Chiang in 2017

     https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

     #tech #ai

     Aral Balkan repeated this.