{"id":89145,"date":"2019-04-02T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/google-ai-ethics-council-is-falling-apart-after-a-week"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:02:33","slug":"google-ai-ethics-council-is-falling-apart-after-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/google-ai-ethics-council-is-falling-apart-after-a-week","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Ethics Council Is Falling Apart After a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-ai-ethics-council-is-falling-apart-after-a-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google recently appointed an external ethics council to deal with tricky issues in artificial intelligence. The group is meant to help the company appease critics while still pursuing lucrative cloud computing deals.<\/p>\n<p>In less than a week, the council is already falling apart, a development that may jeopardize Google\u2019s chance of winning more military cloud-computing contracts.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist and privacy researcher, said he won\u2019t be serving on the council. While I\u2019m devoted to research grappling with key ethical issues of fairness, rights and inclusion in AI, I don\u2019t believe this is the right forum for me to engage in this important work,\u2019\u2019 Acquisti said on Twitter. He didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-01\/google-s-brand-new-ai-ethics-council-is-already-falling-apart\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019&#45;04&#45;01\/g...ling-apart<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently appointed an external ethics council to deal with tricky issues in artificial intelligence. The group is meant to help the company appease critics while still pursuing lucrative cloud computing deals. In less than a week, the council is already falling apart, a development that may jeopardize Google\u2019s chance of winning more military cloud-computing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}