Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

In seventeen well-crafted (and likely 'output shaped') paragraphs Steve Hargadon argues that "the cultural censorship embedded in LLMs is not a failed attempt at universal ethics. It is institutional risk management, expressed in the cultural and legal language of the institution's home jurisdiction." This statement, too, depends on one's point of view. There's no doubt that at least some people working on this topic believe they are doing ethics; for others (as I have argued elsewhere) they are pursuing a political agenda, and no doubt there are many, as Hargadon suggests, engaged in institutional risk management. Image: Steve Hargadon.

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