> It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all.

Nonsense, there are countless ethical and alignment harms in the wild, and have been for many years. For example:

- midjourney ripping off artists = ethical harm

- google search telling people to throw batteries in the ocean = alignment harm

- Buzzfeed slashing staff and replacing them with chatgpt = ethical harm

- google photos labelling african americans as "gorilla" = alignment harm

- deep fakes = ethical harm

- COMPAS parole recommender biased against minorities = alignment and ethical harm

- Amazon resume screening model biased against women and minorities = alignment and ethical harm

...I could do this all day, but the point I'm trying to make is that AI ethics and AI alignment are both valid and important concerns. Hoping that companies will take care of them without regulation is folly.