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Tech companies use AI to anthropomorphize models as a form of moral outsourcing, allowing them to shift blame for negative outcomes onto the technology.
“I coined a phrase back in what, 2017 or 2018, moral outsourcing, where essentially companies anthropomorphize these models on purpose. So that when something goes wrong and something is bad, they can say, "The AI did it." Right? The AI did it.”
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