Why AI’s ethical crisis is worse than you think

Essence

• AI’s Ethical Crisis. AI is not just a technological problem, but an ethical crisis, driven by a culture of manipulation, greed and deceit in Big Tech.
• Growth at any cost. The relentless pursuit of growth fuels AI’s unethical practices, prioritizing profit over societal well-being and transparency.
• Manipulative marketing tactics. Modern artificial intelligence excels at exploiting human vulnerabilities, turning advertising into a powerful tool for deception.

Morals, ethics and character matter. Bad people make bad societies. AI culture, like Big Tech culture, is full of fast and greedy characters, creating an AI ethics crisis.

AI is the latest fad like bitcoin or blockchain. It’s the latest way scammers, scammers and scammers think they can cheat, cheat and scam. It is the latest magnet for the fast and the greedy.

This is not to say that deep within AI there aren’t profoundly important developments that have the capacity to radically reshape society and our society. environment for good It doesn’t mean that there aren’t many amazing scientists and developers working on AI.

It means that the people who matter – the decision makers – are generally crooks, crooks and ruthless crooks. Bad characters operating with a bad model will create bad software that creates a bad society.

Exposing the AI ​​Ethics Crisis: Manipulation and Moral Decay in Technology

Modern AI is advertising. It is born from the great advertising minds of Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. Advertising has always been about lying and targeting vulnerable people as well targeting vulnerabilities of all the others. They are constantly probing our weaknesses.

As a marketer once boasted to me: “The best marketing is when they get you to buy something and you don’t even know why.” AI really excels at this kind of manipulation. Freed from being honest, it can search through millions of combinations of words or images to find just the right combination that triggers a buying reaction from you. Truth for AI is selling, converting or converting, whether it’s selling a politician or fake skin cream.

Over the years, I have met many people behind advertising strategies. They have no problem with what they do. In fact, they think it’s the right thing to do – to move power and money away from a bastard who doesn’t deserve to have it because he’s a bastard, and give that money and power to smarter, more powerful people.

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Growth at any cost: fueling the ethical crisis of artificial intelligence

Many of the worst practices come back to the voracious need for rapid growth and ever greater acceleration. We can bring almost all wrongs back to the door of the Cult of Death Rising, and in the mirrored halls of the Cult of Death Rising we will find the priests of eugenics whispering their mantras of piety.

As Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres wrote for Prima Monday, “Much the same discriminatory attitudes that the animated eugenicists of the past (eg, racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power, while using language “safety” and “benefiting humanity” to avoid liability.”

It has often been left to black women like Gebru to stand in front of the unstoppable train. Her Mastodon profile says she was “fired from Google for raising issues of workplace discrimination and writing about the dangers of big language patterns.” Addressing the AI ​​ethics crisis requires a fundamental shift in values.

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