Tech leaders and public figures who have stepped forward to urge companies to take a more cautious approach to artificial intelligence may have been disappointed Wednesday after reports emerged that the technology giants locked in the battle for A.I. domination are laser-focused on moving fast and winning the race, even if it means chipping away at their own A.I. ethics teams.
Google and Microsoft are racing ahead of the pack in the A.I. arms race, but their fellow Silicon Valley giants are no slouches either. Amazon is tapping machine learning to improve its cloud computing Web Services branch, while social media behemoths Meta and Twitter have doubled down on their own A.I. research too. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg signaled A.I. would be a cornerstone of Meta’s new efficiency push during the company’s earnings call earlier this year, while Elon Musk is reportedly attracting talent to develop Twitter’s own version of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s wildly successful A.I.-powered chatbot released late last year.
