I really think this is the answer. I think a lot about the fall out of the firing/accepted resignation of the AI ethics employee at Google. Based on anonomouys accounts from people talking about having worked with her, It seemed like she often turned interactions with her into hostile interactions, but people feared speaking up because she had a lot of power/influence which many found intimidating.
Lolz. An anonymous whisper campaign. Yeah that’s legit.
It was pretty obvious that Google was engaging in ethics washing. They wanted someone to pay lip service, but instead got a team that actually tried to do their task and hold the company to account. As the saying goes, if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
Google never wanted any of that. Like all megacorps, they want the status quo to be seen as inevitable and good. So they kneecapped the group for being naïve and thinking they were there to do a job, instead of just be gauzey feel good magazine fodder.
