AI companies are at risk of making Silicon Valley's harmful mistakes all over again

Link: AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere, by Rina Chandran in Rest of WorldAmnesty International believes that Facebook was complicit in the genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar:“In 2017, the Rohingya were killed, tortured, raped, and displaced in the thousands as part of the Myanmar security forces’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the months and years leading up to the atrocities, Facebook’s algorithms were intensifying a storm of hatred against the Rohingya which contributed to real-world violence.”It wasn’t that anyone at Facebook actively wanted to enable a genocide: they just didn’t care about not enabling one. Their teams were warned at least fifteen times, but mitigating this obvious harm was deprioritized in favor of other things. They were focused on their own world, with its epicenter in Menlo Park, California. Ultimately, although Facebook was not the source of the genocide, its use contributed significantly, leading to Rohingya…