AI professor embroiled in Twitter spat over AI ethics and ‘cancel culture’

> Healthy debate sharpens everyone’s minds,” Colaner said, “but since we in the AI ethics community have serious, time-sensitive work to do, distraction is not useful, which is why Twitter made the ‘unfollow’ button.

This doesn't sound like a community, it sounds like a gang to be honest. "We in the ethics community..." - He is correct about Twitter though.

> There were concerns over the previous name NIPS due to racial slurs and sexism.

Hard ethical questions indeed and this is absolutely nothing to laugh about.

> equity

Equity and freedom need to be balanced and this is particularly relevant to ethical discussions about AI, so a blanket commitment doesn't seem to be prudent.

In an US context, the balance is generally tipped in favor of freedom, so I can understand the position. You cannot have both in the extreme at the same time, however you can have neither. And this direction is the one most participants here are steering at, voluntarily or not.