[esja]

In my experience, a surprising proportion of people who get involved in these "ethics" initiatives are mostly there to force their own personal ethics onto the machine, even if it means training the machine to ignore reality and skew it in some direction.

These people are not interested in meta-ethics or any critical examination of their own chosen beliefs. They just want things to be the way they want them to be, and manipulating the AI is a means to that end.

I have no view on whether that is happening at Google. Just a general observation.

[innagadadavida]

Just look at how well it has worked out for the researcher. People who are willing to make a scene and get a lot of attention will win and benefit a lot. If anyone still thinks this is about AI ethics or any other ethics, it definitely is not. This is just getting ahead in a hyper competitive world. Sometimes using questionable means.