Reader questions whether AI ethics debates can alter course already set by incentives
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Guardian staff reporter
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A reader responds to The Guardian's profile of Iason Gabriel, a philosopher at Google DeepMind, acknowledging the seriousness with which AI builders are approaching ethics but raising a critical concern: the most important decision about AI's direction may already have been made. The reader argues that the trajectory of AI development is being set not by philosophers or engineers, but by the incentives surrounding the technology, suggesting that ethical debates may be happening too late to change course.
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bskyReader questions whether AI ethics debates can alter course already set by incentivestheguardian.comKey quotes
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Yet it also left me wondering whether the most important decision has already been made.
My concern is that the direction of travel may already have been set, not by philosophers or engineers, but by the incentives surrounding the t
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