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Google to pull plug on AI ethics council

By Staff Writer, Printweek on Apr 5, 2019 12:47PM
Google to pull plug on AI ethics council

Dissolves body it formed a week earlier.

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday it was dissolving a council it had formed a week earlier to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The council had run into controversy over two of its members, according to online news portal Vox, which ...

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