Google will glorify it’s history in it’s middle schools just like America glorifies it’s history in it’s middle schools.
Considering the researchers are hired according to their sheltered backgrounds, holding them as indivuals accountable is futile.
If you care, vote accordingly, for politicians willing to refuse corporate donations.
If you care a lot, study revolutionary history, learn from it and organize. I’m just paraphrasing the only thing that seems to ever actually work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning [2] https://beamandrew.github.io/deeplearning/2017/02/23/deep_le... [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01164
We should encourage developers to fight for privacy, and discourage them from engaging in research/writing code that can be used to commit evil acts.
And yes, I wholeheartedly agree that everyone should vote.
I wish researchers would start to ask themselves if what they're building can be abused by authoritarian governments, and if so, switch focus to a field of research that will make the world a better, rather than a worse, place to live in.
History will not look kindly on researchers who built the tools that enabled Xi the Pooh to achieve a dystopian surveillance state.