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I read the Judge’s Order , so you don’t have to. Another 49 pages were added to the heart-wrenching tragedy of Sewell Garcia in May, as Judge Conway ruled against Character A.I. and Google on a number of motions argued in the case brought against them by Sewell’s mother. Of these, 3 are profound in their impact on AI ethics. Google knows that AI has the potential to harm. When the Google team who later formed Character A.I. asked to release a version of their LLM designed for text dialogues (LaMDA), Google denied their request.  Notably because: “ Google employees raised concerns that users might “ascribe too much meaning to the text [output by LLMs], because ‘humans are prepared to interpret strings belonging to languages they speak as meaningful and corresponding to the communicative intent of some individual or group of individuals who have accountability for what is said.’ “ This is vital, because it acknowledges that human users instinctively anthropomorphise LLM text and in d...