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The options are not "do irresponsible testing" or "do less testing."

Treat these behaviors like if an arms manufacturer - or hell, even a shampoo company - did them. Sorry our shampoo made you blind, but we needed to test on real humans...

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It feels like all the most-hyped software/service technologies in the last 30 years (if not longer) have involved people who scoffed at regular norms/rules/laws to make money, only to badly reinvent the "new" concepts once it became a way to preserve their profits.

(e.g. ride-share / "gig-work" networks, cryptocurrencies, off-leash stochastic AI.)

Almost like this is a new era and we are seeing the growing pains of these technologies.

Man, hindsight is 20/20 on HN. These companies should just have had the foresight to hire you in 2023, then surely none of this would have happened.

All of these things were known in ai safety research and well known.

They know, they just don’t care

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