Comment on It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I will take a different tack than sweng.

You can’t inject programmatic controls.

I think that this is irrelevant. Whether a safety mechanism is intrinsic to the core functioning of something, or bolted on purely for safety purposes, it is still a limiter on that thing’s function to attempt to compel moral/safe usage.

None of those changes impact the morality of a weapons use in any way.

Any action has 2 different moral aspects:

Of course, it is impossible to change the moral intent of an actor. But the LLM is not the actor, it is the tool used by an actor.

And you can absolutely change the morality of the outcome of an action by limiting the possible damage from it.

Given that a tool is the means by which the actor attempts to take an action, it is also the appropriate place that safety controls to attempt to enforce a more moral outcome should reside in.

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