Note that Anthropic is still lobbying for the government to exert centralized control over models, so both sides of the “debate” have taken a pro fascist stance.
The “AI ethics” teams at these companies are the spearhead of the attack on democracy and civil society. Anyone that has taken a high school level history class, let alone read any important ethics literature would know that “centralize control over thought, speech and technology” is a fundamentally unethical stance.
For these groups to claim they are ethics researchers is offensive.
(I’m using the Wikipedia definition of fascism: “Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”)
The “AI ethics” teams at these companies are the spearhead of the attack on democracy and civil society. Anyone that has taken a high school level history class, let alone read any important ethics literature would know that “centralize control over thought, speech and technology” is a fundamentally unethical stance.
For these groups to claim they are ethics researchers is offensive.
(I’m using the Wikipedia definition of fascism: “Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”)