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Comment by EagnaIonat

3 hours ago

> The whole notion of "AI safety regulations" is so silly and misguided.

Here is a couple of real world AI issues that have already happened due to the lack of AI Safety.

- In the US if you were black you were flagged "high risk" for parole. If you were a white person living in farmland area then you were flagged "low risk" regardless of your crime.

- Being denied ICU because you are diabetic. (Thankfully that never went into production)

- Having your resume rejected because you are a woman.

- Having black people photos classified as "Gorilla". (Google couldn't fix at the time and just removed the classification)

- Radicalizing users by promoting extreme content for engagement.

- Denying prestige scholarships to black people who live in black neighbourhoods.

- Helping someone who is clearly suicidal to commit suicide. Explaining how to end their life and write the suicide note for them.

... and the list is huge!

these issues are inherently some of the uglier sides of humananity. no LLM safety program can fix them, since its holding up a mirror to society.