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#civictech Service Designer. Author of "Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up" @pragprog. Editorial Boards @magazine_cdo & @springernature. She/Her/Hi!
Apr 15, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
The firings of @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai from Google raised red flags about corporate interests clashing with intellectual freedom that the #AIEthics community can't ignore. I'm proud to co-author this opinion paper on where to go from here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… The mistreatment these two experts experienced didn't happen in a vacuum: A small number of corporations hire a large number of AI researchers. These corporations also submit *a lot* of papers to academic conferences, along w/ sponsoring said conferences.