The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor over a debate about AI ethics, Timnit Gebru’s controversial exit at Google, so-called “cancel culture,” and more.
A heated back-and-forth involving longtime AI researcher Pedro Domingos and the response from the UW demonstrates the complexity of public discourse on controversial topics. It also highlights unanswered questions related to the societal implications of artificial intelligence, and is the latest example of the backlash that can occur when politics collides with academia and the tech industry.
Domingos, who joined the what do computer engineers do faculty in 1999 and is the author of The Master Algorithm, sparked the initial discussion on Twitter after he questioned why the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference was using ethics reviews for submitted papers.
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