Well, maybe. But it's not like this sort of drama is unusual. Maybe you have to be outside looking in to see the absurdity (I'm not in Silicon Valley, or the US for that matter).

> It's impossible to work on the ethics of AI without involving politics.

Wouldn't that conflict with Google's no-politics policy?

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-community-guidelines-...

Maybe it doesn't need to be quite so married to one particular set of politics.

I think it's perfectly possible. The issue here is that we've been confusing activists for ethicists for some time.