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> Although he was named Google’s first “design ethicist” after the report reached the top levels of the company, Harris left the company in 2016 having failed t
by sdoering 5y ago
> Although he was named Google’s first “design ethicist” after the report reached the top levels of the company, Harris left the company in 2016 having failed to convince managers to actually change their products.
This reminded me of the saying to "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".
It might be me being a cynic, but whenever I read about some critic being promoted into a visible role that makes them the official evangelist of their ideal I ask how much actual power they were instated with. More often than not it is not there.
- katmannthree 5y agoI'm pretty sure this is one of the bigger reasons why timnit gebru didn't make it at google, because she thought her job was to actually make progress regarding machine ethics when it was instead to give them the appearance of having done so without slowing them down or making them look bad in any way.