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You are commenting on different things. She pointed out the political oriented people on the ai committee who knew absolutely nothing about technology or ai. Th

You are commenting on different things. She pointed out the political oriented people on the ai committee who knew absolutely nothing about technology or ai. They were just prominent conservatives, who had no apparent reason to be there. Pointing out something like that is vastly different than saying you killed your own project. Pointing out what appear to be politically connected but otherwise useless people on leadership groups is a good thing I think.

sverige 8y ago
I don't understand the argument that someone participating on an ethics panel has to be an expert on the tech. The more important thing is that they should be conversant with ethics. The questions involved have to do with should we build this tech, not how to build this tech. To argue otherwise means that the vast majority of people should not be allowed to have opinions on the ethics of nuclear weapons, medical procedures, or any other topic where they are not subject matter experts. AI tech and the ethics of using it is rightly a political topic, since it has the potential to affect everyone on the planet. Preemptively saying that certain viewpoints have no place at the table simply means the political discussion will move from a friendlier environment within Google to the (likely more hostile to Google's interests) environment of general politics in the U.S. Personally I think that might be a better outcome, but from Google's standpoint it's potentially a disaster since it might result in heavy regulation of their business.
- NotSammyHagar 8y ago
  You don't have to be an expert, but imho you should be someone who has a grasp of technology, science and the world on a very focused technology issue. If you are someone who denies humans impact the earth's climate, if you argue in favor of people who think the world is only 8,000 years old, I don't trust you to make choices about science based policy.

sverige 8y ago

I don't understand the argument that someone participating on an ethics panel has to be an expert on the tech. The more important thing is that they should be conversant with ethics. The questions involved have to do with should we build this tech, not how to build this tech. To argue otherwise means that the vast majority of people should not be allowed to have opinions on the ethics of nuclear weapons, medical procedures, or any other topic where they are not subject matter experts. AI tech and the ethics of using it is rightly a political topic, since it has the potential to affect everyone on the planet. Preemptively saying that certain viewpoints have no place at the table simply means the political discussion will move from a friendlier environment within Google to the (likely more hostile to Google's interests) environment of general politics in the U.S. Personally I think that might be a better outcome, but from Google's standpoint it's potentially a disaster since it might result in heavy regulation of their business.

NotSammyHagar 8y ago
You don't have to be an expert, but imho you should be someone who has a grasp of technology, science and the world on a very focused technology issue. If you are someone who denies humans impact the earth's climate, if you argue in favor of people who think the world is only 8,000 years old, I don't trust you to make choices about science based policy.