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Anita Chabria: AI companies are creating ‘all-powerful psychopaths.’ Maybe not a great idea?

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By Anita Chabria, Los Angeles TimesRepeated law-breaking. Lying and deceit. Reckless disregard for safety. Lack of remorse. Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion. Unfortunately, it’s also increasingly clear that these are the traits that define the most powerful artificial intelligence models being developed at alarming speed by for-profit corporations — corporations that would like us to believe that slowing down this roll toward AI dominance is somewhere between impossible and foolhardy. It is neither, and that’s…

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