Re:Google is investigating the actions of another top AI eth...
by visarga on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:07AM
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> Leaking sensitive material is not unethical by definition, some situations might impose a moral imperative to act in this manner.
Doesn't apply in this case. Snowden acted for the country, not for his dear friend who was fired in a scandal. Their supporters on Twitter raised hell and even made a cancel list of twitter users (AI researchers) who dared oppose their comments (Anima A.).
Re:Google is investigating the actions of another top AI eth...
by slut on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:06AM
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Had it been an independent or much less related third party I'd tend to agree. However, with Mitchell's relation to and defense of Gebru, I'm not terribly sure I'd call this ethical, unless one is completely able to suspend their own biases. Getting caught doing this is bad judgement either way.
In the narrow ethical world of top down organizations, be they for profit corporations or the Army, it's of course a mortal sin, as is every other attempt to bring accountability to upper levels and redirect the flow of bullshit from top-down to bottom-up. I'll let you guess who decides what "ethics" stands for in this situation.