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John -- Microsoft closed-down its artificial intelligence “Ethics and Society” team earlier this year, and continues promoting AI tools that can make disinformation at an industrial scale. Tell Microsoft to reinstate the “Ethics and Society” team and protect the internet: Below this line is an email we wrote in April with more information about the campaign. Almost 80,000 people have already signed the petition. Will you join us and spread the word?
John, Just a few weeks after Microsoft made a 10 billion dollar investment in ChatGPT, it scrapped its entire “Ethics and Society” team whose job it was to make sure the technology was safe to use. Microsoft hopes that the media buzz around AI will mean that no one will notice their reckless drive for profits – but we will prove them wrong. When thousands of us demanded Microsoft end its dangerous plans for facial recognition technology – it worked. We can do it again. AI Chatbots like ChatGPT pose new, deep risks to our safety and privacy with experts raising the alarm that they are capable of enabling bad actors to spread malicious lies more quickly than ever before. The move to gut the “Ethics and Society” team was driven by profit-hungry executives who are desperate to rush the new iteration of ChatGPT to the masses – even if that means it is dangerous. Microsoft says that they have other teams monitoring AI but Microsoft’s own employees confirmed that the “Ethics and Society” team was responsible for implementing important safeguards on ChatGPT. We have to stop Microsoft from unleashing this technology without supervision. We know that when Ekō members like you act, Big Tech takes notice. Let’s do it again. Call on Microsoft to reinstate the “Ethics and Society” team and safeguard AI.  Thanks for all that you do, More information: Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
Tech Crunch. 13 March 2023. Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly The Verge. 13 March 2023. |
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