We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening

This seems valuable to me:

> Scientists and engineers should focus on building models that meet people’s needs for different tasks, and that can be evaluated on that basis, rather than claiming they’re creating über intelligence. Similarly, we urge the media to focus on holding power to account, rather than falling for the bedazzlement of seemingly magical AI systems, hyped by corporations that benefit from misleading the public as to what these products actually are.

bet: in five years there will be legal cases attempting to argue that AIs can count as legal persons, which will be for the purposes of absolving a corporation being sued for harm from responsibility for those acts as "the AI was acting independently". That is by far the most important and very plausible case Gebru is making and we will definitely see it happen soon. "Blame the AI" would be an incredibly easy way to absolve bad actors of responsibility if they could clear such a legal hurdle and all of the "AI is sentient" hype most certainly leads towards that outcome .

Nice ad hominem you got there.