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That is not banality of evil. That is evil.
The banality of evil are those who implemented the AI system. Because they just did as they where told.
Comment by Great-Cry9045 at 08/12/2024 at 14:14 UTC
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Bingo. Data scientists had to write that code knowing full well what they were doing, and managers up the chain had to direct them. There would have been meetings discussing how to “improve the model” and employees would have been recognized for their “outstanding work”.
Comment by elriggo44 at 08/12/2024 at 19:14 UTC
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Disagree. Because if you’ve read the book Eichman, a chief architect of the holocaust, had convinced himself that he was blameless because all he was doing was keeping the trains running. He was “doing his job” and someone else was ordering the actual atrocities.
This CEO 100% believed he was doing his job because business culture has been so corrupted that the entire thing can be summed up as “number goes up”
The AI can be directly comparable to Eichman’s trains. Just a tool. And the deployment of the tool was not, in itself, evil. But using the tool to allow for the blatant murder of others is just “the cost of doing business”.
He is as evil as Eichman was, and also, absolutely, believed himself blameless because he was just a cog in the system doing the job he was hired to do.