Opinion

February 25, 2019

"AI ethics should be a forethought, not an afterthought"

OpenAI's new "dangerous" text-writing tool epitomises the "invent first, worry later" approach.


Carly Minsky

3 min read

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI stoked controversy last week by creating a text-writing tool that is, they say, too dangerous to release. The group, co-founded by US entrepreneur Elon Musk, warned that it could be used for generating fake news, impersonating people, or automating comments on social media.

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