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What would it take to build AI ethically?
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I consider these to be the main ethical issues with specifically LLMs and generative AI in general:
Point 1 can be resolved by the people training AI just making different choices. Many won't unless they're forced to, but in principle they could.
Points 2 and 3 could hypothetically be resolved in the future with better technology.
The rest are basically inherent to the technology and you can at best try and mostly fail to reduce the risk. So as far I'm concerned, what it would take to build AI ethically is to train it for very specific purposes and have it be used as statistical models by people who know what they're doing.
Though I do see some potential for ethical LLMs by using them to perform vector searches instead of generating text, basically turning them into smarter search engines.