If not AI ethicists like Timnit Gebru, who will hold Big Tech accountable?

[...]last week, Timnit Gebru co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team at Google. Who should be overseeing the deployment of artificial intelligence systems with major societal implications? Because those systems are typically built with proprietary data and are often accessible only to t...

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Published inTechTank [BLOG]
Main Author Engler, Alex
Format Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington The Brookings Institution 17.12.2020
Subjects
Accountability
Artificial intelligence
Bias
Employees
Ethics
Politics
Researchers
Workplace diversity
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Summary:[...]last week, Timnit Gebru co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team at Google. Who should be overseeing the deployment of artificial intelligence systems with major societal implications? Because those systems are typically built with proprietary data and are often accessible only to the employees of large technology companies, AI ethicists at these companies represent a key—sometimes the only—check on whether they are being responsibly deployed. A renewed interest in antitrust enforcement has sparked a recent lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and forty states accusing Facebook of anticompetitive behavior and another from the Justice Department targeting Google.
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