As a researcher in the area, this is really shocking. Microsoft had cultivated a ton of good will by growing that area of study, and to see it gone is not something I would've expected at all. One of the more surprising events in AI in the last few years for me.
Maybe the leading lab left these days. All the more pressure on the few orgs that want to "operationalize AI ethics".
Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
As a researcher in the area, this is really shocking. Microsoft had cultivated a ton of good will by growing that area of study, and to see it gone is not something I would've expected at all. One of the more surprising events in AI in the last few years for me.
Maybe the leading lab left these days. All the more pressure on the few orgs that want to "operationalize AI ethics".
Coincidence that this particular send isn't using an AI-generated header image?