<story><title>AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/ai-ethics-research-conference-suspends-google-sponsorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>Google should have never started hiring ethical AI researchers. They should have hired AI researchers and made their stuff available to independent ethics researchers.&lt;p&gt;These independent researchers should be employed by i.e. a university and funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee (i.e. like car makers have to pay to certify their cars).&lt;p&gt;It makes no sense for them to hire their critics and then think they can stay independent. You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aabhay</author><text>Yup, exactly. This is also the stance taken in the book Lingua Franca:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ethics in AI should not be so convoluted as to require a separate profession; ethics should be distributed across an organization, flowing through and between individuals so that conversations of design naturally arrive at ethical questions. More crucially, everyone should have the tools to speak up and suggest improvements, so that no one person or set of people hold the keys to building ethical technology.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linguafranca.polytopal.ai&amp;#x2F;handbook&amp;#x2F;agency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linguafranca.polytopal.ai&amp;#x2F;handbook&amp;#x2F;agency&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/ai-ethics-research-conference-suspends-google-sponsorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>Google should have never started hiring ethical AI researchers. They should have hired AI researchers and made their stuff available to independent ethics researchers.&lt;p&gt;These independent researchers should be employed by i.e. a university and funded by government funds, maybe even additionally with an AI regulation fee (i.e. like car makers have to pay to certify their cars).&lt;p&gt;It makes no sense for them to hire their critics and then think they can stay independent. You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&amp;gt; You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s good to be critical of your own products to make them better. But you have to actually be willing to do that for it all to work.</text></comment>