https://gizmodo.com/palantir-among-tech-firms-taking-white-house-ai-pledge-1850829017
Adobe, Nvidia, Salesforce, Stability, and more also claimed they will steward ‘trustworthy’ AI, if you can ever trust the companies themselves.
Palantir, Adobe, IBM, Nvidia, Salesforce, and other U.S. Tech firms taking White House AI Pledge
Being “bound by law” barely matters either. They’ll do it anyway and just pay a really minor fine and continue to do it anyway.
Said it before I'll say it again, verbal contracts from any business is just lip service. Unless it comes with the real and actionable threat of destroying the business if they don't comply to the letter then they will reneg on the deal the second it becomes inconvenient
Write in federal prison terms for any CEO who's company is convicted of AI misuse or abuse and I'll happily negotiate whether the minimum mandatory sentence should be higher or lower than 10 years.
Palantir?? I mean the others deserve cynicism too but the company whose whole job is evil and named itself after a surveillance tool explicitly used for evil?
How does that pinky swear line up with a business model of “Move fast and break things”?
What a fucking crock of shit.
I promise to do no evil.
Cross my heart
And hope to die
Stick a needle in my eyes.
(Crossmark on heart)
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The contract is sealed. Steely nothing will go wrong, right?