Policies meet Ethics Even if Google is in the right when it comes to the departure of its best ethical AI researcher, the company looks very bad. Jerry Hildenbrand 10 Dec 2020 0 Source: Android Central Recently, Dr. Timnit Gebru, recognized as one of the best ethical AI researchers Google had ever hired, parted ways with the company. It wasn’t a very cordial breakup, either. It all stems from a paper Gebru was intending to present at a computer science conference in March 2021 about ethics in AI — the kinds of things Android uses inside the best phones every day. Google claims it requires 14 working days to approve any writing or presentations of this type if an employee advertises themself as working for Google. This is so the company has a chance to make sure all the data about it is correct and current. That isn’t a bad thing and most companies will have similar policies surrounding research papers.VPN Deals: Lifetime license for $16, monthly plans at $1 & more Where things differ is how each side portrays what happened next. Source: Getty ImagesDr. Timnit Gebru Gebru says that there really isn’t any hard and fast policy about… Read full this story
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