Chomsky on ChatGPT: Are Machine Learning Systems Like Concentration Camp Guards?
Noam Chomsky and his co-authors attribute the "moral indifference" of ChatGPT to purely cognitive limitations. They may be overstating the case on that issue--and missing a deeper Humean point.
Note: I talked to Stefan Bertram-Lee about this essay on the This is Revolution podcast (cross-streamed onto GTAA). You can watch that conversation here or here.
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