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Biologists have well developed frameworks for judging the ethics of experiments that has been built up over a century of horrifying missteps.

AI is at the "hire and fire until they get a sycophant" stage in the development of proper ethical review methods.



Not chinese biologists . Or Mexican biologists for all that matters (I'm from Mexico). I mean, there's a lot of countries capable of playing with viruses which dont have real practical controls.


Chinese biologists have ethics committees too, as do Mexican researchers.

Here's neurobiology at UNAM: http://www.inb.unam.mx/index.php/comite-de-etica-en-la-inves... and here's a bioethics committee in the university of Guadalajara: http://www.cusur.udg.mx/es/investigacion/comite-de-etica-en-... and here's a Ethics committee for the Shanghai Clinical Research Center: http://www.scrcnet.org/iec_en.asp

You might argue that these achieve little in practice, and due to corruption amount to nothing more than fig leafs. But that doesn't invalidate the argument because AI researchers don't even wear that much!




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