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Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union

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Re: Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union

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itsdrewmiller wrote: post #10
vmception wrote: post #9

Seems to me like the 2-year stints are a big deterrent to joining a union. All you have to do is ignore social causes for 18 months, after an additional 6 months being team selection and other unproductive stuff, and you have an okay probability of clearing $1,000,000 during a bull market? What would have to change for employees to be able to meaningfully change Google? The incentives just are not there. I have heard…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to that effect: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-acco...

Interesting! Thank you, think this will be reintroduced?

Re: Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union

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Post by bb88 »

jjcon wrote: post #7

I’m no fan of google but if their ethicists are found doing unethical things they shouldn’t be immune to suspension just because they have the word ethics in their job title - they should be held to a higher standard not lower

Ethics is not the same as corporate policy. Ethics needs openness to explore the, well, "ethics" of a particular conflict -- and it can only work on known facts, not speculation.

Further, some would say that to be ethical might mean exposing unethical behavior regardless if it violates corporate policy.

Re: Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union

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Post by hnlurker »

vmception wrote: post #11
itsdrewmiller wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to that effect: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-acco...

Interesting! Thank you, think this will be reintroduced?

Right after we get a prepubescent transgender kid to approve the incoming secretary of education..

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/02/04/warrens...

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