..has someone had a polite word with them about not killing all humans by sheer accident?
If you believe this, Deepmind had to push for an ethics board which suggests that people are mentioning it to Google and that Google is not taking the issue too seriously.
That interpretation seems tenuous. The sentence in which "pushed" is used:
The DeepMind-Google ethics board, which DeepMind pushed for, will devise rules for how Google can and can't use the technology.
suggests nothing more than that the proposal originated with DeepMind. I may as well imagine that Google's apparent amenability to the arrangement augurs well.
(Unless the article goes on to explain further? Not a subscriber.)
So I know we've already seen them buying a bunch of ML and robotics companies, but now they're purchasing Shane Legg's AGI startup. This is after they've acquired Boston Dynamics, several smaller robotics and ML firms, and started their own life-extension firm.
Is it just me, or are they trying to make Accelerando or something closely related actually happen? Given that they're buying up real experts and not just "AI is inevitable" prediction geeks (who shall remain politely unnamed out of respect for their real, original expertise in machine learning), has someone had a polite word with them about not killing all humans by sheer accident?