A lot of us here hate AI because of how it was built: training data gathered without the creators’ explicit, opt-in consent, data centers that negatively affect communities’ access to clean water and energy, a technology design that is inherently prone to hallucinations, etc. At least, those are the main reasons why I hate it.
I think I might actually want to support an AI project if I thought it was being done right. Maybe we could get more people away from exploitative models if there was a non-exploitative alternative.
So what would it take to build AI ethically, in your opinion? And do you know of anyone trying to build AI without these issues?
Getting rid of all the tech bros and CEOs is the first step. That is an actually important step because they’re the ones that spend tons of money on lobbying for laws that are good for them. Laws can be (un)ethical, or abused in unethical ways (see DMCA and patent trolling). Remove the main pushers for unethical computer and IP related laws and you fix a significant part of the problem.