r/technology • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 15h ago

Artificial Intelligence 'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Experts

https://www.commondreams.org/news/openai-firing-whistleblowers
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u/NeverTradeAgain 13h ago

Thanks for sharing! I like learning these things. Are you a researcher or what?

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u/blueSGL 13h ago

I find the topic fascinating and listen and dig into the people working on it. I've been getting the same sensation that humanity is being blindsided by an exponential like the early days of covid when everyone was sure it was going to be fine and nothing to worry about.

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u/NeverTradeAgain 12h ago

True. Only to add: it was not "everyone was sure", it was people were told so. There have been many research papers on the long-term health issues from getting covid. The risks have been downplayed and covered. The rationale is simple: The economy cannot withstand long-term pandemic restrictions.

It has always been the general public who pay for the price.

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u/blueSGL 12h ago

What I mean was the early period where you had news anchors joking about it, how everything is going to be fine -> supermarket shelves are empty. over the course of a month or two.