By: Isobel Asher Hamilton
June 12, 2019
A member of Google’s disbanded AI ethics council said on Wednesday that the company’s enormous global influence means it needs to be treated like a world power.
Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computer science at the University of Bath, spoke about Google’s short-lived AI ethics council at the CognitionX conference in London. She was joined by De Kai, a fellow former council member and AI expert at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The pair were speaking at a panel on governance and accountability in AI, and the moderator asked them to address the “elephant in the room.”