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Google employees freak out when AI ethics board member says "you can't change the definition of women to include men"


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2019 Apr 2, 8:06pm   1,554 views  15 comments

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6874645/Google-workers-want-ultra-conservative-AI-council.html

Google employees demand conservative AI ethics board member is sacked for 'transphobia' after she said you can't 'change the definition of women to include men'

Kay Coles James is the president of conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation
She was selected by Google to provide her opinions for the AI ethics board
Her views clash with many of Google's left-wing staff who are now protesting
More than 1,000 Google staff have signed an open letter demanding her to be removed from the board

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.

The board, called the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), consists of experienced industry experts who work in the field of artificial intelligence research.

Ms Coles is now at risk of being exiled from her latest post by the protest-prone employees.


And she's a black woman, lol.

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1   Shaman   2019 Apr 2, 8:09pm  

Google is run by a bunch of damned fruitcake nutjobs!
I’d imagine all the conservatives quietly bailed years ago and there’s nobody left but screeching autistic wildebeests with purple hair covered by pussy hats and the beta men they dominate.

God what an awful place to work!
2   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 2, 8:29pm  

I can't imagine that Google has that many employees that demand definition of women to include "men". Maybe a handful of very loud fruitcakes who probably should just be fired to reduce unnecessary work distractions and noise. That's what I would do at least.

It's insane how much mentally ill people got attention in CA, and kowtowing, all in the name of "diversity and acceptance". Shit is just stupid now.
3   Patrick   2019 Apr 2, 8:59pm  

Turns out that they didn't really want a different viewpoint.
4   Automan Empire   2019 Apr 2, 9:45pm  

The headline of this post isn't as clever as the Daily Mail at the strategic use of quotation marks to make it appear she said something she didn't.

Here is what she actually wrote (emphasis added)

Today @heritage will critique gender identity @UN_CSW because powerful nations are pressing for the radical redefining of sex. If they can change the definition of women to include men, they can erase efforts to empower women economically, socially, and politically.
5   Patrick   2019 Apr 2, 9:57pm  

Thanks, that's an even better illustration of the insanity of the left.

You've got a black woman trying to help women being shouted down by trannies. Good lord.
6   epitaph   2019 Apr 3, 12:28am  

Stop using Google products.
7   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Apr 3, 1:09am  

Patrick says
You've got a black woman trying to help women being shouted down by trannies. Good lord.


@Patrick, go check out #StopLightfoot. It's literally Left Insanity.

We put this together as a group of young Black, Brown, Native, white queer, Trans and gender-nonconforming organizers and people who love Chicago, and have worked for years on issues of police violence, immigrant justice, LGBTQ liberation and more. Lori Lightfoot is ahead in the polls, just like Anita Alvarez was just weeks before her election against Kim Foxx in 2016. We made this on our own time, as volunteers not affiliated with any electoral campaign, in a span of hours because we urgently believe Lightfoot is a threat and far too many white liberals and progressives are comfortable voting for her, even while they claim to support efforts like #BlackLivesMatter. We reject that. We offer this site as one tool that we hope folks will use and amplify and do whatever they can to #StopLightfoot between now and April 2nd.

https://www.stoplightfoot.com/

These people love Kim Foxx, the Chicago DA who let Smollett off, and think Lori Lightfoot (who just won Mayor as a Black Leftist Lesbian!!!) is too centrist and too liked by "White Liberals".

Trump has really got this group going, they are gonna cause tons of trouble (fun!) in the election if they are a tenth as crazed against "White Liberals" as they are against "MAGA Hat Wearers"
8   Patrick   2019 Apr 3, 6:37am  

epitaph says
Stop using Google products.


Google has infected so much of the internet with bits of javascript that people include on their sites that it is not even legally possible to stop using Google.

That is, you are forced to use government or corporate websites at times, and they very commonly give access to everything you do there by including Google javascript.

Google needs to be broken up, the pieces burned, and the ashes scattered in the sea.
9   Patrick   2019 Apr 3, 6:40am  

MisterLearnToCode says
Patrick, go check out #StopLightfoot. It's literally Left Insanity


Lol, sounds like the left eating their own again for not being far enough left. This is a good thing, since it weakens the forces of destruction.
10   Y   2019 Apr 3, 6:54am  

True. They just use the same methods on that petition they use to stuff the ballot boxes every other november...
FortWayneIndiana says
I can't imagine that Google has that many employees that demand definition of women to include "men". Maybe a handful of very loud fruitcakes who probably should just be fired to reduce unnecessary work distractions and noise.
11   Y   2019 Apr 3, 6:59am  

Sounds like they wanted somebody to roast as part of the virtue signalling segment of the ethics meetings.
Patrick says
Turns out that they didn't really want a different viewpoint
12   Y   2019 Apr 3, 7:01am  

Some living thing is always offered up as a sacrifice during this type of ceremony..
13   HeadSet   2019 Apr 3, 8:22am  

Patrick says
Turns out that they didn't really want a different viewpoint.


Maybe Google employees are just racist - don't want to hear from a Black, especially from a Black woman.
14   Automan Empire   2019 Apr 3, 8:40am  

BlueSardine says
employees that demand definition of women to include "men"


That was not said in the article by Kay James, any Google employee, or anyone else. The Daily Mail wrote a creative headline, which OP rewrote into a flat out falsehood.

Does ANYBODY EVER read the article beneath any headline any more? Does ANYONE look at primary sources?

This thread is a terrible example of how easily news can be manipulated and falsehoods propagated and incorporated into peoples' worldviews.
15   Patrick   2019 Apr 5, 1:55am  

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-cancels-ai-ethics-board

Well, it’s officially done falling apart — it’s been canceled. Google told Vox on Thursday that it’s pulling the plug on the ethics board.

The board survived for barely more than one week. Founded to guide “responsible development of AI” at Google, it would have had eight members and met four times over the course of 2019 to consider concerns about Google’s AI program. Those concerns include how AI can enable authoritarian states, how AI algorithms produce disparate outcomes, whether to work on military applications of AI, and more. But it ran into problems from the start.

Thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the removal of one board member, Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James, over her comments about trans people and her organization’s skepticism of climate change.

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