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505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.
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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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PTSD leads to suicides. Very often. And even without suicide, people with poor mental health often live very short lives due to stress.
Also, please do not misrepresent what I said. I talked about not giving them safety equipment, not them dying in a mine collapse. Both involve not giving the workers protection they need for low pay and could easily lead to very poor health and short lives in exchange for being somewhat less poor than their neighbors but still poor. The miners are not given physical safety equipment and the workers for OpenAI are not given the mental safety equipment.
I think you trust too much in modern psychology if you think that this job would lead to significant suicides but non-chemical therapy would prevent. Much more effective would just be pre-screening or informing applicants of the duties(which may have been done)
Did you not read what was pasted?
They are not being given the psychological tools they need. That's a big part of the problem. Again, it is no different than not being given safety equipment.