Sarah Yager, OpenAI's first human rights and responsible deployment lead, discussed her role at the ScaleUp:AI conference in New York, focusing on military applications amid OpenAI's Department of War partnership. She described working with engineers to align models with the Geneva Conventions and expressed concerns about autonomous weapons and targeting. Yager said she joined after due diligence, wary of being a "branding exercise," and called human rights the baseline for AI ethics.
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