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Funny how no one minded when the highly politically-motivated billionaire Peter Thiel was (and still is) pouring enormous amounts of money into AI.

I'm more concerned about billionaires with an agenda than no-name researchers giving a talk on cyber-intersectionality.

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I think this topic is more about what should be the focus of discussion in the AI community. A key question is: to what extent do AI researchers need to consider ethics and how do they need to consider it? These are hard questions. People in the broader AI community are typically no ethics experts, so the discussions can easily become uninformed and unpleasant, and some people on the extremes of both sides will try to use it to strengthen their profile (or perhaps, some of them simply can't hold their horses). Funding sources are a different topic, and many funding providers fund both AI intersectionality and research towards more effective autonomous weapons systems...

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