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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by BeetleB on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:22AM (#19582767)
>How can you possibly begin to discuss AI Ethics if you have no idea how it works or what's -realistically- possible?

That's what other members of the board are there for. Let's flip your question: How do you expect a tech person to comment reasonably about AI ethics when all they've taken is an undergrad course in philosophy (and even that may be a stretch).

The notion that a person on the board must be an expert in every aspect involved is ridiculous.

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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry by intertextuality on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:34AM (#19589269)
It’s not ridiculous to expect people to understand the topic that they are discussing. You can take domain experts and train them in ethics. It’s impossible to discuss something–and the ethics around it–if you don’t fully understand how it works.

I wouldn’t want John Stuart Mill on that board because he wouldn’t know what he was talking about, and therefore would be unable to properly evaluate things.

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