Microsoft just laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization. 

Wow. Just WOW. 

This is legit scary. https://i.imgur.com/4QpY3Tw.jpg

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Here’s the link to the piece: 

https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its?r=v6g2x&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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I know it's not irony... but I feel like there is irony in there somewhere.

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Seems very unlikely. The team was likely an obstacle in going at a “very high speed.” https://i.imgur.com/T56lotl.jpg

I really hope they are just outsourcing it to a co like Vera or Arthur, which *could* be even stronger protections than in-house… but probably not

This is a tough one Renee. Sometimes the need for power and greed know no bounds.

I hope there is a card up their sleeve we just don’t see yet. They are often playing chess not checkers, but I can’t tell on this one.

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It’s going plenty fast. Have been using GPT-4 over the last few hours and it’s better!

“Our car isn’t going fast enough, so we removed the brakes.”

devil’s advocate: we’re they really the best at their job? clearly MSFT bots have had the _most_ issues