“In an interview with Wired, Gebru said that she had attempted to negotiate with Google, offering to remove her name from the paper in exchange for the company providing a full explanation of its objections and outlining a list of best practices for handling such incidents in the future.”

So questioning ethics of something that could have far reaching consequences is the wrong hill to die on because capitalism doesn’t care about us? 

If you’ve never had a job where you haven’t been able to push back on superiors, and seek to hold them accountable, within the duties of your job, and in a civil manner, for their failures to live up to purported mission of the company, you’ve never had a job where your superiors valued you or your position. I am…

Why have an AI ethicist on your staff if you’re unwilling to accept some difficult truths?

(Not going to put this well but ...) Thank you for writing this post, covering this story and exposing it to a wider audience.

Seriously, an armed mob trying to force its way into a house in the middle of the night. What were they going to do, make a citizen’s arrest? What a joke. Those cops that let them go without even taking their names should all be fired for negligence and sheer stupidity for just ignoring a lynch mob.

So they got together an armed lynch mob and terrorized this woman because they thought some guy *might* live there and when they found out he didn’t and the actual police arrived, nobody was arrested even though they brought weapons to the scene and tried to force their way into her home.

Sounds like a planned lynching.

My fiance told me about this last night. Not only were we both shocked/not-shocked, we contemplated what we would do in a similar situation, being white.

Nah, homeboy will end up landscaping for an uncle and killing off a 12-pack a night until cirrhosis ends him, while homegirl will end up failing at being a tattoo artist and selling LuLaRoe after having married an abusive jarhead.

It’s a shame that this isn’t a wake up call for Americans about the policies of health insurance. This is just another day and nothing will be said or done.

Having no health insurance is an underlying condition.

I’ve heard that if you just eat your bootstraps it‘ll clear right up. 

This is going to get real bad, real fast.

This takes me back to the days of working at KFC and coming into work so weak with the flu that I had to keep finding a place to hide just so I could sit down before I passed out (the stairs going up to the roof, FWIW). I wonder how many people I infected. I even tried to stay home at least once but was told that if I…

Considering the whole problem is that people are not going to public places, I don’t see how that’s a big issue in this situation.  

don’t have the ability to take food to go.

I feel terrible for our local caterers. We’ve had to cancel all our meetings, large and small, and the lunch orders that go with them. We’ve received many e-mails from the caterers updating us on their policies regarding increased safety measures and switching from buffet-style meals to boxed lunches and they’re all…

I find it more amusing when the people think they have something worth millions and go on and on about how their ancestor brought it over on the Mayflower and it turns out to be worthless junk someone bought at Sears.

What I truly do not understand about incidents like this is why they (cops) don’t walk in, figure out the caller is on some bullshit and then give them a citation for the aforementioned bullshit. The wslasting of their time is one thing but the deterrence of future incidents should be another. I’m not even going to…