Comment by mitthrowaway2
Comment by mitthrowaway2 a day ago
"AI safety" is a meaningful term, it just means something else. It's been co-opted to mean AI censorship (or "brand safety"), overtaking the original meaning in the discourse.
I don't know if this confusion was accidental or on purpose. It's sort of like if AI companies started saying "AI safety is important. That's why we protect our AI from people who want to harm it. To keep our AI safe." And then after that nobody could agree on what the word meant.
Because like the word 'intelligence' the word safety means a lot of things.
If your language model cyberbullies some kid into offing themselves could that fall under existing harassment laws?
If you hook a vision/LLM model up to a robot and the model decides it should execute arm motion number 5 to purposefully crush someone's head, is that an industrial accident?
Culpability means a lot of different things in different countries too.