It's obvious at face value, Big Anything can't be trusted to guarantee anything to be a priority over their own profit margins. Still, it's good to see more people in power taking this seriously.

This has been the case for every new technology invented since before the Industrial Revolution.

• Cotton gin: further proliferation of chattel slavery in the American south
• Steam engine: coal barons using child labour and Pinkertons to extract basically forced labour
• Oil: oil companies purchasing legislatures with bulk discount, climate change
• Sewing machine: sweatshops
• Airships: lax safety standards, giant inflammable hydrogen ballons
• Electricity: 5,000 cables haphazardly strung on every lightpole in the city
• Telephone: monopolies charging ten zillion dollars for a long-distance call, eavesdropping, &c.
• Computer: mass surveillance
• Internet: spam emails
• Web 2.0: corporate surveillance for advertising purposes
• Web 3.0: NFT scams
• AI: deepfake porn, rubbish AI "books" flooding Amazon

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• Paper: tax documents

~~Execs tell first UN council meeting that~~ big tech can’t be trusted ~~to guarantee AI safety~~

FTFY

Big Tech can be trusted... That they will do everything possible to be first to market to try to ensure a monopoly, including illegal use of data, lobbying to prevent regulation to be implemented and buying politicians to protect them.