Googlers, eggheads urge web giant's bosses to kick top conservative off its AI ethics council

Googlers, eggheads urge web giant's bosses to kick top conservative off its AI ethics council

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/google_employees_protest_again/

Over a thousand Google employees and members of the machine-learning community have signed a petition urging the ad giant to remove Kay Coles James, president of conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, from its external AI ethics board.

Last week, Google announced the launch of the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC). The organisation is made up of non-Googlers, and was set up to ensure Google sticks to the AI principles it drafted following Project Maven – that whole killer drone debacle with the US military.