Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart | Vox

Later in the article: "Overall, it’s not clear whether the panel will be used for guidance on internal Google matters at all. What it definitely will be used for is PR."

"Of the eight people listed in Google’s initial announcement, one (privacy researcher Alessandro Acquisti) has announced on Twitter that he won’t serve, and two others are the subject of petitions calling for their removal — Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, and Dyan Gibbens, CEO of drone company Trumbull Unmanned. Thousands of Google employees have signed onto the petition calling for James’s removal.

James and Gibbens are two of the three women on the board. The third, Joanna Bryson, was asked if she was comfortable serving on a board with James, and answered, “Believe it or not, I know worse about one of the other people.”

Altogether, it’s not the most promising start for the board."

Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart | Vox