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I have a question about incentives in organizations. If you form a team to identify problems in your org, wouldn't the team keep finding more problems, no matte

I have a question about incentives in organizations. If you form a team to identify problems in your org, wouldn't the team keep finding more problems, no matter what, to justify the value of themselves? A DEI officer will find more injustice in a university so over the years U-M History Department had 2.3 DEI officers per staff member. Or Gebru's team had been finding more and more egregious behavior in Google AI. On the other hand, security teams are highly regarded in a company, even though they are supposed to identify security/privacy problems in the org as well. What made security different from those ethics teams?

bombcar 4y ago
Security is provable in some way, as in “look you can exploit us I’m doing it right now” - many of the others are more nebulous.
trhway 4y ago
>security teams are highly regarded in a company i doubt it. High regard for a security team is only projected, especially outside, because it is perceived as a virtue. "Security" these days in many respects is like communism ideology back then in USSR - there is just no option of not claiming allegiance to it. Where is internally it is usually just a theater. Just look at all those large publicly known breaches. >What made security different from those ethics teams? You can claim allegiance to ethics without having an ethics team, fortunately.