Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by pgayed on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:28PM
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A business doesn’t get to exist because of its employees. It gets to exist because of its customers.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by AlexandrB on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:02PM
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Or increasingly: because of its investors.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by pgayed on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:25PM
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Investors are an instantiation of the class Customer.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by high_derivative on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:18PM
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Sure - I am just observing this from the power dynamics here. A relatively low-level employee making aggressive and public demands to a large corporation should think carefully about their position. Unless the goal is a scandal for publicity.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by pgayed on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:25PM
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> unrelenting pursuit of business value
Who determines what value a business gets assigned?
I mean, yes. It's an unfortunate reality that ethics are often at direct odds with the unrelenting pursuit of business value. For a big tech like Google, by caring about people and the impact of your technologies, you will almost surely sacrifice profits in the short term.
So then the question is: people or profits?