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This is why Google's so-called "AI ethics board" is nothing but a sham. The AI ethics board should have already stopped this, or the fact that Google intended to use its AI in China for censorship, or use it for military drones to find targets to kill.

But it didn't. It's just another PR thing Google did to get people off their backs while they continue with their original plans for AI in advertising/user tracking.

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Do you happen to know what, more specifically than "ai ethics," the board considers part of its job?

Is privacy issues around data sufficiently "ai" to be part of this.

I mean, I can easily picture a board of hyper-intelligent academic types who are only interested in skynet or brain-in-a-vat situations.

Nobody knows anything about the board.

> DeepMind has consistently refused to say who is on the board, what it discusses, or publicly confirm whether or not it has even officially met.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/26/google-de...

I'm not sure why this is being down-voted, could someone thinking of down-voting comment?

EDIT: now I'm being down voted? Could someone explain?

HN has a huge amount of Googlers as users. That’s the downvotes. Just look at the Googlers in this thread defending the company.

Makes sense, actually /:

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