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Do you not care about Google censoring and firing one of the people who are supposed to keep it ethical?
by lsiebert 6y ago
Do you not care about Google censoring and firing one of the people who are supposed to keep it ethical?
- kd913 6y agoNo not really. Just as I probably wouldn't care if Boeing fired one of their plane testers or Rolls Royce for one of their engine testers. It's 1 employee out of 120k. There are probably other ethicists in AI at Google. Also the story seems to have devolved more specifically to employment rather than talking about the specific ethical issues relating to Google's language models.
- lsiebert 6y agohttps://gizmodo.com/more-than-1-500-google-employees-sign-petition-condemni-1845816400 https://gizmodo.com/more-than-1-500-google-employees-sign-pe... I mean google employees including most of her coworkers seem to think it's problematic.
- kd913 6y agoYes because the individual internally can see a better picture as to why the disagreement has occurred and why it's important. More importantly, the individuals within the company can influence the decision much better. None of that is useful here which from an external perspective looks like a employment dispute. She isn't exactly doing a Snowden here. Even if the individuals internally view it as problematic, I am not gonna stop using Android, Google or Youtube. What are these individuals expecting to achieve from airing the dirty laundry in public? Are they expecting people's opinions to have changed at all about Google?
- lsiebert 6y agoWe talk about the tech community right? What do you do when there's a problem in your community you want to address... not talk about it?
- kd913 6y agoThis is not an issue that affects the wider tech community. It is specifically relevant to Google and nobody else. The firing/resigning/petitions are irrelevant. The wider community important information would be the specific ethical issue she is keen on raising.
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