Google's problem with AI and ethics: Chips With Everything podcast
by Presented by Jordan Erica Webber and produced by D from on (#4EHRG)
After Google's decision to scrap its new AI ethics council, Jordan Erica Webber revisits a Chips episode from last summer that looked at Google's AI objectives
At the end of March, Google launched a group to advise on ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. It called the group the advanced technology external advisory council.
A week later, Google announced it was shutting the council down. A group of Google employees had criticised the inclusion of the leader of what they considered to be a rightwing thinktank and had called for her removal because of previous remarks she had made that were thought to be anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant.