A group of Google employees are trying to remove a member of a newly-formed AI ethics board because her opinions do not match theirs. Kay Coles James, president of conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation, was brought on-board last week by Google to provide a different viewpoint to that of Google's left-wing staff. Google set up the external AI ethics council to guide the tech giant away from morally questionable uses of its technology and encroaching on the privacy of its customers. It is intended to advise the search giant on matters relating to the development and application of its artificial intelligence research. Last year, Google published a set of internal AI principles, the first being that AI should be socially beneficial.

Source: Daily Mail April 02, 2019 10:13 UTC