{"id":85355,"date":"2018-12-01T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-top-ai-scientist-who-quit-google-over-chinese-censorship-plans-details-the-hypocrisy-that-sent-him-packing"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:22:53","slug":"the-top-ai-scientist-who-quit-google-over-chinese-censorship-plans-details-the-hypocrisy-that-sent-him-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-top-ai-scientist-who-quit-google-over-chinese-censorship-plans-details-the-hypocrisy-that-sent-him-packing","title":{"rendered":"The top AI scientist who quit Google over Chinese censorship plans details the hypocrisy that sent him packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-top-ai-scientist-who-quit-google-over-chinese-censorship-plans-details-the-hypocrisy-that-sent-him-packing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Poulson is the former Google Senior Research Scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/13\/jack-poulson.html\">who quit the company\u2019s machine learning division<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/tag\/project-dragonfly\">Project Dragonfly<\/a>, the company\u2019s secret plan to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/27\/student-protest.html\">censoring Chinese search engine<\/a> designed to help <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/14\/organize-the-worlds-informatio.html\">the country\u2019s spies surveil dissident search activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an editorial on <em>The Intercept<\/em>, Poulson describes the series of events that led up to his resignation: a chain of execs who, in private meetings and public statements, engaged in hypocritical deflection and spin rather than giving the straight answer about why they were going to go into China and what the result of that would be (answers: \u201cTo make money,\u201d and \u201ccomplicity in human rights abuses\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/12\/01\/principle-v-mealymouthed-horse.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/12\/01\/principle-v-mealymouthed-horse.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Poulson is the former Google Senior Research Scientist who quit the company\u2019s machine learning division over Project Dragonfly, the company\u2019s secret plan to build a censoring Chinese search engine designed to help the country\u2019s spies surveil dissident search activity. In an editorial on The Intercept, Poulson describes the series of events that led up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}