On March 26, Google said it was launching a global advisory council, the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), to tackle ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The eight-member council will meet four times in 2019 starting this month and publish a report at the end of the year, the company said. “We hope this effort will inform both our own work and the broader technology sector,” Google's post read. Who is on Google's AI council? The council comprises technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, drawn from the corporate world, academia and government. They are: Alessandro Acquisti, a leading behavioral economist and privacy researcher. Bubacarr Bah, an expert in applied and computational mathematics. De Kai, a leading researcher in natural language processing, music technology and machine learning. Dyan Gibbens, an expert in industrial engineering and unmanned systems. Joanna Bryson, an expert in psychology and AI, and a longtime leader in AI ethics. Kay Coles James, a public policy expert. Luciano Floridi, a leading philosopher and expert in digital ethics. William Joseph Burns, a foreign policy expert and diplomat. Google said the council will consider some of the most complex challenges that arise under its AI Principles, which it announced last June, such as facial recognition and fairness in machine learning. In four days, AI council explodes into controversy But on Saturday, just four days after the announcement, Acquisti tweeted that he had declined Google’s invitation to join the council as he didn’t believe…
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