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Laura Weidinger: Ethical Risks, Harms, and Alignment of Large Language Models

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Cultural Shift in AI Research?

I would say a general trend, perhaps, in the AI research for not just developers, but even academics have been making a shift towards being more forward thinking. We do have some responsibility to understand these technologies that we're building, I mean, are increasingly powerful and are likely to have a social impact. So it isn't something we can ignore that this is a technology that bears a lot of promise for societal impact. It's also hard to know how your research could really impact like a real person in the real world.

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