Yep, but you’d be absolutely dumbstruck if you met someone in the U.S. or Canadian tech industry who was formally punished by the company for introducing the company to someone who was later e.g. fired, right.
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Ethical Risks of Production Data Deletion Tools
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You write a tool which is capable of deleting prod then you slap your forehead. “Yep I’m going to get some kid fired five years from now at a terrible employer, phew, let me do you a solid kiddo. Well, OK, not making a value judgement on whether you being there is good idea.”
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Rails Safety Culture: Industry Must Stop Tolerating Dangerous Practices
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Apropos of nothing: a change Rails made many years after existing, which is a positive change, is refusing to reset the database if you point it at a production environment. Culture isn’t just a firm thing. We, as an industry, have tolerated footguns far, far too long.
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Balanced Approach to AI Risk: Realism Over Panic
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I don’t think we need to be afraid or cause panic. We need to be realists. Weigh the pro’s and con’s and work to mitigate risk, like we generally do as a society at large.
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Engineer Retained After Systems Issue: Company Culture Matters
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“I never would have hired you into a shop that would countenance [firing an engineer for a systems issue].” might be an almost verbatim quote from that discussion. The last I checked I think he was still a staff engineer there, some years after an incident that few remember.
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Professional Responsibility Culture in American Workforce
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And so I told him that he could absolutely put out of his mind any worry for me, because the culture that is the professional class in America would certainly not chain responsibility in that fashion. But more importantly, he shouldn’t be worried for himself either.
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Professional Responsibility and Cultural Accountability in Hiring
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(There are, indeed, some places in the world where one is perceived to vouch for people that one hires, and their failures are thus your failures. If you have long lived in one of those cultures, worrying your mistake was a career ender for me sounds natural.)
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Auditing AI Systems: Access Requirements for Effective Oversight
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Auditing AI: How Much Access Is Needed to Audit an AI System? https://
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AI Co-founder’s Vision: Using Artificial Intelligence for Good
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"What can AI do to help people?” A simple yet profound question from @drfeifei
’s mother changed the course of her career. Read more about our co-founder's journey and vision for AI as a force for good via @WSJ
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Midjourney urged to address bias in AI systems
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I hope @midjourney does something about this issue to reduce bias in the systems. Thanks @matlg for sharing