🚨 EXCLUSIVE: @Bloombergopinion’s Parmy Olson Exposes the Dark Side of AI Safety! 🤖

1 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, the host asks about the current state of trust and safety efforts across major tech firms, probing whether these initiatives have been effective or merely a distraction. The guest responds that while trust‑and‑safety teams do provide some benefit, they are typically tiny, under‑funded, and sidelined in product meetings that prioritize rapid scaling and launch speed. The guest cites Google as an example of a company that invests time in building responsible algorithms, yet notes that the lack of external regulation leaves the extent of that investment to the company's discretion.

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What's your point of view on where we are with trust and safety, even broader than maybe the two companies you're talking about? Has trust and safety helped? Has it just been a massive distraction? Do we need to start again with it? What do you think?
Well, it's definitely helped for the little resources that these teams have. But when you talk to people who work on these teams and people who have knowledge of these teams, the overwhelming consensus is they're tiny and they are under-resourced and they're largely drowned out in all the product meetings. By the people whose greater priority is to get these systems bigger, get them to launch faster. Google, I think, really does put a lot of time and effort into trying to build its algorithms responsibly, but at the end of the day, it's not really being regulated for this stuff. And so it's very much its own decision how much investment to put into these.