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Google fires top AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell

3 pointsby jluxenbergabout 4 years ago

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themodelplumberabout 4 years ago
Wow. How tragic for those impacted.<p>The linked story lends quite a fascinating vigilante-ethicist vibe to the events. If I understand correctly, the allegedly-malfeasant corporation&#x27;s corporate ethicist detected a vile ethics breach in the system, and in turn decided to breach the system in order to detect the corporate malfeasance.<p>If true, this is a pretty stunning example of the problem of qualitative ethics. They are deep, like the fractal the ethicist mentions. This is not limited to AI. You can&#x27;t checklist them. They are everywhere, and just when you think you&#x27;ve figured them out, there&#x27;s another blind corner ahead.<p>And a big problem with that: Corporations, as group-oriented, yet still subjective, inward-facing&#x2F;loving organisms, tend to struggle with the depth required to even parse situations like this. Parsing is itself far from deep-diving--I hope the best for all involved...