[weego]

When I've previously read about AI ethics at Google I've always assumed that the focus was on the ethics of what's contained in the training data and the biases that are being explicitly or implicitly encoded into these models.

And yet apparently it's this, which is... I don't know. My biggest worry is that this isn't a one off state of mind and people might actually be susceptible to these ideas.

If the 'gap' that the human conscious experience needs (in some) to fill by creating religion can be extended to what amounts to a dataset filtered through an equation then this industry is in for a rough time.

[plorkyeran]

They fired the previous AI ethics researchers who were looking into things like biases encoded into training data after those researchers said Google had a bunch of problems in that area.