Black in AI, Queer in AI and Widening NLP sent an open letter to Google on May 10th and are terminating their sponsorship agreements over recent dismissals and unethical behaviors. http://www.winlp.org/an-open-letter-to-google/This is doubly important as Google I/O announces a new large scale language model (exactly what Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and Emily Bender were raising concerns about) accompanied by much talk about Google’s ethical approach but a refusal to show anyone what that actually looks like. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22443441/google-ai-language-models-dangers-risk-io-timnit-gebru-margaret-mitchell-firing
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Robotics Fundings and Ethical Issues
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Black in AI, Queer in AI and Widening NLP sent an open letter to Google on May 10th and are terminating their sponsorship agreements over recent dismissals and unethical behaviors. http://www.winlp.org/an-open-letter-to-google/This is doubly important as Google I/O announces a new large scale language model (exactly what Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and Emily Bender were raising concerns about) accompanied by much talk about Google’s ethical approach but a refusal to show anyone what that actually looks like. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22443441/google-ai-language-models-dangers-risk-io-timnit-gebru-margaret-mitchell-firing