We are past the point to be able to understand what's going on. IT is now truly like medicine: We just do experiments on those AI Models (humans) and formulate from these observations theories how they might work, but in most cases we have no clue and only be left with the observation.
At least with medicine there are ethics and operating principles and very strict protocols. The first among them is ‘do no harm.’
It’s not reassuring to me that these companies, bursting at the seams with so much cash that they’re actually are having national economic impact, are flying blind and there’s no institution to help correct course and prevent this hurdling mass from crashing into society and setting it ablaze.
There is now. But were these principles in place long ago at the beginning?
There are billions of humans, though...