'AI ethics has taken a back seat.'
"AI ethics has taken a back seat."Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month,And the reviews, as it turns out, were absolutely scathing. The AI was a "pathological liar," one worker concluded, according to screenshots obtained by. Another tester called it out for being "cringe-worthy.
In a February note, which was seen by nearly 7,000 workers, another employee called Bard 'worse than useless: please do not launch.", labeling it as an "experiment" and adding prominent disclaimers.Google's decision was likely a desperate move to catch up with the competition, with OpenAI racing ahead with its highly popular ChatGPT, despite the tech being in a seemingly underdeveloped state.
"AI ethics has taken a back seat," former Google manager and president of the Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker told. "If ethics aren’t positioned to take precedence over profit and growth, they will not ultimately work."Yet two Google employees toldthat AI ethics reviews are almost entirely voluntary at Google, outside of more delicate areas like biometrics or identity features.
Google executive Jen Gennai said during a recent meeting that upcoming AI products could score an "80, 85 percent, or something" on "fairness," a bias indicator, instead of having to aim for "99 percent," according to the report.Worse yet, it sounds like Google's upper ranks are actively siloing teams that are working on new AI features, shielding the rest of the company from what they're actually working on.
"There is a great amount of frustration, a great amount of this sense of like, what are we even doing?" Margaret Mitchell, who used to lead Google's AI ethical team before being pushed out over a fairness dispute in 2021, told"Even if there aren’t firm directives at Google to stop doing ethical work," she added, "the atmosphere is one where people who are doing the kind of work feel really unsupported and ultimately will probably do less good work because of it.
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