Amanda Askell
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.





I had chronic pain for most of my life until a doctor did an MRI of the pain source and found a congenital condition that was then fixed with surgery. Now I'm wondering if I had 30+ years of pain because doctors worried I was too stupid to be in the presence of scan results.





I’ve seen this trope posted by a lot of doctors in the last 24 hours. The claim from doctors is that Midjourney’s cheap full body scanner is bad, because people would get treated unnecessarily for harmless conditions, and that would increase death rates. Now, I have a lot of skepticism about Midjourney’s announcement (a lot of skepticism) but I think that the doctors are failing to look in the mirror. What they are saying is, in effect, that they cannot be trusted with having more information about patients. That, if you give doctors too much information about a patient’s condition, they may kill the patient by treating them unnecessarily. This isn’t a problem with inexpensive full body scanners. This is a problem with doctors and medical practices.




Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"


The OAI / Anthropic values difference is deeply misunderstood, even within the walls of both. Should a loving ensouled machine God watch over humanity? Vote Anthropic. Should humanity be entrusted with the tools of its own progress and destiny? Vote OpenAI.
