Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?
The real problem with AI ethics and fairness is that nobody actually listens to ethicists or philosophers. Nobody takes the subject seriously.<p>It’s just a hype vehicle to cram in whatever social justice outrage du jour that some liberal source wants to push as an agenda. I say this as a liberal who is sympathetic to most of those issues, but finds their representation in AI ethics or fairness debates to be ignorant and juvenile power grabs.<p>The whole Timnit Gebru affair is a direct example. The paper Google didn’t want to approve for publication was really poor. Lots of specious arguments. Lots of declarations of opinions as if they were fact (eg. nobody is required to agree with or accept woke vocabulary, let alone ensure NLP models are kept updated with it), and lots of sanctimonious assertions about various agendas that nobody has to agree “are right” and have zero appropriateness within a science publication.