Very cool #story about #students #revolting against a #university 's #surveillance https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/senso.. What was interesting to me is that #hr #bypassed the #ethics approval system for #scientific #research , despite it being a *requirement.*
And here we have the #decline of #deepmind with the " #study " of #ai #ethics in the #lgbt #community https://www.deepmind.com/blog/advocating.. What will happen is the #engineers that built this excellent #research #company will be pushed out for #diversification and it will slowly fall apart. It's no wonder why #google have been slowly kicking back out their #ai #ethics people. #facebook will likely soon do the same and #elonmusk is doing the same at #twitter .
Apparently we have to look forward to a #meat #tax in the #uk https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4XKEFKBg1A As somebody who currently eats almost exclusively meat as part of the #keto diet, I find this particularly troubling. Apparently this is nothing to do with #ethics - but instead an #environment push. Meanwhile, the biggest contributors to #emissions will go completely unpunished.
Probably one of the largest misconceptions about large tech companies is that they are an entity with #ethics https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0527.s.. #google as a company doesn't have #morality - it's literally against their best interests to do so. They only sell the perception that they do.