Ethics
7 unrolled threads about ethics, each one readable on a single page.
Anna Matson@AnnaRMatsonWho needs cable when you can watch Congress for free? Senator Josh Hawley introduced his bill to ban stock trading and the room LIT up. You won’t want to miss this recap 🍿 🧵 ...
SummarySenator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress, citing that 86% of Americans support such a ban. The bill passed committee with support from both parties, though Republicans raised concerns about discouraging private sector professionals from entering politics and potential retroactivity issues.Jul 30, 202513 tweets♥ 125K
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SummaryThread in Indonesian about 25 ethics that shouldn't be ignored, covering various moral principles and guidelines for daily life. The creator shares these ethics across multiple parts (tweets 1-12 and 13-25) with the hope they'll be remembered and useful.Sep 22, 20244 tweets♥ 82.9K
Vanessa Sivadge@V_SivadgeTHE AFTERMATH The day after I blew the whistle on June 18 2024, an attorney from the compliance division at Texas Children’s called me. I was asked not to return to work the following day, and when I...
SummaryA whistleblower describes the fallout after exposing alleged gender clinic malpractice at Texas Children's Hospital in June 2024, including the CEO's resignation, media pressure campaigns, and legislative investigations. The whistleblower was fired in August 2024 but received substantial public support to fund ongoing legal action.Jun 19, 202510 tweets♥ 58.9K
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, LCSW@pgarfieldjaegerI recently attended a a three credit professional training called “The Impact of Donald Trump on America- A Cultic Studies Perspective”, which instructed therapists to hate their Trump supporting pati...
SummaryAn attendee documented a three-credit professional therapy training course that criticized Trump supporters using inflammatory language, calling them a "cult," misogynists, and making Holocaust comparisons. The course appears to violate therapist ethics codes by instructing clinicians to disdain their Trump-supporting patients based on their political beliefs.Aug 19, 202513 tweets♥ 25.2K
Alex Turner@Turn_TroutI resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watch...
SummaryA former Google DeepMind employee resigned after the company sold AI services to the military without restrictions against autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, breaking its founding ethics pledge. Despite organizing internal petitions, proposing alternative contract terms with oversight mechanisms, and attempting to mobilize AI ethics leaders, the employee found that key figures chose silence over action, demonstrating how ethical commitments often collapse when confronted with institutional power.Jul 15, 202614 tweets♥ 16.8K
Iván Arcuschin@IvanArcusYou change one word on a loan application: the religion. The LLM rejects it. Change it back? Approved. The model never mentions religion. It just frames the same debt ratio differently to justify op...
SummaryResearchers developed an automated pipeline to detect hidden biases in large language models that influence decisions without being mentioned in reasoning. Testing across 6 frontier models on hiring, loans, and admissions, they found systematic biases related to gender, race, religion, and language proficiency that models don't verbalize, suggesting chain-of-thought monitoring alone is insufficient.Feb 11, 202615 tweets♥ 12.2K
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew