Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship
by sangnoir on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:02AM
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> You are basically paying people to shit on your own products. Makes no sense.
Self regulation is preferable (to a private company) to industry-wide regulation, which in turn is preferable to government regulation.
If you want to avoid government oversight, either have internal oversight with the appearance of independence. Alternatively, have an "independent" overseeing body for your industry (whose behavior you may still indirectly control via nominations, seats on boards, funding, etc). Having an actual independent body providing oversight, appointed and controlled by an arm of government body is the worst outcome, yet it is inevitable when lapses arise, and voters demand "something be done" and you failed to provide a veneer of oversight, like Google is doing here.
Self regulation is preferable (to a private company) to industry-wide regulation, which in turn is preferable to government regulation.
If you want to avoid government oversight, either have internal oversight with the appearance of independence. Alternatively, have an "independent" overseeing body for your industry (whose behavior you may still indirectly control via nominations, seats on boards, funding, etc). Having an actual independent body providing oversight, appointed and controlled by an arm of government body is the worst outcome, yet it is inevitable when lapses arise, and voters demand "something be done" and you failed to provide a veneer of oversight, like Google is doing here.