Comment by int_19h
3 months ago
> What exactly is the moral dilemma with AI? We are all reading this message on devices built off of far more ethically questionable operations.
The main difference is that for those devices, the people negatively affected by operations are far away in another country, and we're already conditioned to accept their exploitation as "that's just how the world works" or "they're better off that way". With AI, the people affected - those whose work was used to train, and those who lose jobs because of it - are much closer. For software engineers in particular, these are often colleagues and friends.
Right so then it is a matter of convenience disguised as an ethical problem. because they still arent boycotting the unethical processes effecting other people (by the same line of ethics that makes AI unethical in their view), just the ones effecting themselves
as opposed to the ethical concerns hitting home and waking them up as a call to action and even though it's a little unfortunate that they didnt care until it effected them, we could argue it is still a point of ethics because they are consistently applying the ethical standpoint unilaterally across their life now that theyve had a change of heart.