Microsoft Scraps Entire Ethical AI Team Amid AI Boom

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As part of the tech giant's ongoing layoffs, the company has cut its Ethics and Society team, which had focused on aligning AI products with responsible policy.

to govern corporate AI decision making. But the ethics and society taskforce, which bridged the gap between policy and products, is reportedly no more.

Gizmodo reached out to Microsoft to confirm the news, but did not immediately hear back. In a statement to Platformer, the company wrote: Microsoft is committed to developing AI products and experiences safely and responsibly...Over the past six years we have increased the number of people across our product teams within the Office of Responsible AI who, along with all of us at Microsoft, are accountable for ensuring we put our AI principles into practice...We appreciate the trailblazing work the ethics and society team did to help us on our ongoing responsible AI journey.

 

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...and Microsoft Research has its own Institutional Review Board, for convenience I guess. Thanks for the reporting.

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