AI ethics

7 entries between September 2016 and July 2022.

Every entry

  1. Google fires the engineer who called LaMDA sentient

    Google fired the engineer Blake Lemoine on 22 July 2022. He had told executives that the company’s LaMDA conversational model had become sentient after extended chat sessions, and had been placed on paid administrative leave on 11 June for sharing confidential material.

  2. Bender, Gebru and coauthors publish “Stochastic Parrots”

    Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and a coauthor writing as Shmargaret Shmitchell published “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” at the ACM FAccT conference on 3 March 2021.

  3. Google fires Timnit Gebru after a dispute over an ethics paper

    Timnit Gebru, co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team, said on 2 December 2020 that Google had forced her out over a paper it asked her to retract. Google said it accepted a resignation; Gebru said she had threatened to resign and was never given that choice.

  4. European Commission publishes AI ethics guidelines

    The European Commission’s high-level expert group published Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI on 8 April 2019, setting out four principles and seven requirements, among them human oversight, privacy, transparency, and accountability. The guidelines were voluntary.

  5. Google publishes seven AI principles after Maven

    Sundar Pichai published seven principles for Google’s AI work on 7 June 2018, six days after the company said it would not renew Project Maven. They commit Google to avoid AI for weapons or mass surveillance and to assess projects for safety, fairness, and accountability.

  6. The Asilomar AI Principles are published

    The Future of Life Institute published 23 principles on research practice, ethics and long-term safety, drawn from its Beneficial AI conference at Asilomar, California, in January. More than 1,700 AI and robotics researchers eventually signed them.

  7. Five companies found the Partnership on AI

    Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Google’s DeepMind announced the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, a non-profit for best practice and public understanding, open to academic and civil-society members. Apple joined in January 2017.