This is all fall out from the Timnit Gebru firing (I'm including Anima Anandkumar posts are also part that fall out.), and specifically a Twitter fight between

This is all fall out from the Timnit Gebru firing (I'm including Anima Anandkumar posts are also part that fall out.), and specifically a Twitter fight between Pedro Domiguez and Timnit Gebru, and others. The biggest hill that Domingos has staked out is that asking researchers to include a discussion of impacts and potential abuse of systems to be "wasteful" and "ill-conveived"[0]. Also, he has decided to make a stand on the hill that the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems should not go by the acronym NeurIPS[1]. [0] https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1338204976733032450 https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1338204976733032450 [1]https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1337594183033389058 https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1337594183033389058