Study: 58% of AI faculty at four prominent universities have received grants, fellowships, or other financial support from one of 14 large tech companies
My bigger point was that this is an issue w capitalism and wage work, whether that work is doing funded research or “other.” Here as elsewhere when engaging in wage work, people don't always behave like “rational economic actors.” AND YES ALSO Big Tech wants a return on its $ htt…
RT WIRED : As a grad student working on artificial intelligence, Mohamed Abdalla could probably walk into a number of well-paid industry jobs. Instead, he wants to draw attention to how Big Tech's big bucks may be warping the perspective of his field. https://www.wired.com/...
This is important work. We must be vigilant for conflict of interest as big tech (especially Google and Microsoft) conquer more and more of the AI ethics space. Conflict of interest does NOT mean intellectual “capture”, but the possibility is real & can have dire consequences. ht…