Google employees demand removal of conservative member from AI council

Posted by mminnick 5 years, 12 months ago to Culture
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"Hundreds of Google
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employees demanded the removal of the president of the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation from the company’s newly formed artificial intelligence
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council, citing her anti-LGBT record.
In an open letter published on Monday, employees at the world’s largest search engine criticized the appointment of Kay Cole James to its advanced technology external advisory council (ATEAC) which is tasked with informing the company’s decisions regarding its use of AI.
Employees linked to tweets that James wrote in February and March in which she fought against protections for LGBT and transgender people. She also advocated for a proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border by President Trump. "

Note it has nothing to do with technical capability but rather her conservative views. I wonder what would happen if a Conservative company demanded a liberal be removed from such a position. It would be front page news I bet.


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  • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wouldn't ideological diversity eventually lead to diversity of ideas? If you have the same ideology you might accidentally have differing ideas but you certainly would have different ideas springing from a different belief base.
    Just Asking. lead
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  • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When you've been told all of your life the ideas you have are correct and sacred you don't delieve anyone that says different is correct or is even allowed to voice their different opinion.
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  • Posted by 5 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No one followed up to make sure he did what he said he would do. the words were sufficient.
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  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 12 months ago
    I though Pichai cracked down on the out of control hysteria of his employees.

    Nothing happened to that extent. He is a total disgrace as the head of a major corporation.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 12 months ago
    Some people just can't accept any opinion other than their own. Isn't that amazing?
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  • Posted by Solver 5 years, 12 months ago
    When they talk about diversity they are really talking about ideological diversity and not the diversity of different ideas or such.
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