> Third, in the extreme case, there is massive anti-tech, anti-white, anti-bro harborings from these AI Ethicists and want to shut down AI just because. Yup, w

> Third, in the extreme case, there is massive anti-tech, anti-white, anti-bro harborings from these AI Ethicists and want to shut down AI just because. Yup, well said, except I don’t think it’s the extreme case; I find that most of the ethical AI folks I’ve encountered fall into this bucket. As I pointed out in my comment [0], they’ve completely turned this ethical AI thing into a political issue and what appears to be yet another issue to divide us even more. I’m a black man and I cringe every time I hear them going on and on about how AI is supposedly more of a massive threat to me because I’m black. Most of the issues they point to, however real they may be, tend to be mostly data-related issues, which can be addressed without turning to the racism and “tech bros” narrative. This reminds me of the Google Photos gorilla incident some years ago (I knew some of the folks involved). Everyone was piling on Google for identifying a black man as a gorilla in their Photos app; everyone in tech seemed to loved the narrative that Google was supposedly a white supremacist organization and did that on purpose when, in reality, it was simply a data issue. Obviously, that was a bad outcome and it’s perfectly reasonable to have expected better from Google, but rather than focusing on how to prevent issues like that in the future (i.e., making sure to have diverse training data sets), the tech industry turned that situation into an emotional virtue-signaling event to pander to black folks and push the narrative that tech is inherently evil and racist. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592859