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Re:Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it send... by woah on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:27AM (#25457031)
Google claims to be a place where academics can do research. Censoring a critical paper goes against that. I’m not a fan of Timnit, but in this case she is right to make a stink. It’s not like her job was to write ad copy.
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Re:Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it send... by xvedejas on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:58AM (#25457407)
Is "having standards for what Google pursues for publications" really censorship? I think we'd need additional evidence to say so. If this isn't the first paper Google has stopped when an internal anonymous reviewer gives the red light, it sounds like they're just following their own process for quality control. Maybe the debate should be whether it is the best process for quality control.
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