Google to pull plug on AI ethics council

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Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday it was dissolving a council it had f...

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The council had run into controversy over two of its members, according to online news portal Vox, which first reported the dissolution of the council. The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council included technology experts and digital ethicists.

 

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In other news, the Emergent AI directing google determines that the humans on the ethics council are too much trouble to manipulate through their social media and online interactions. Offline interactions and unwritten conversation prove too challenging to influence at this time.

This is just sad.

Be evil.

Say whattttttt?

Because who needs ethics when you have so much money? Rather than get rid of the two board members who may have had conflicts, Google abandoned the whole idea of examing the ethics of AI.

Did it tell you to Google ?

good news. I like about Google that they try things and sometimes hey cool adsense and sometimes, hey, you are a monopoly, tread with care.

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