Simon Willison’s Weblog

We call on the field to recognize that applications that aim to believably mimic humans bring risk of extreme harms. Work on synthetic human behavior is a bright line in ethical Al development, where downstream effects need to be understood and modeled in order to block foreseeable harm to society and different social groups.

— Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell