I have been calling for exactly this for years. We can not leave these critical decisions to be made within tech bubbles.
No matter how well meaning engineers and tech companies are, they must recognise that it is essential to include diverse stakeholders outside of tech.

We do need to start approaching these problems from less of a strict tech fix and more of a social science issue. I am glad to hear some companies say they are pursuing a more participatory approach to developing guidelines, frameworks, and constitutions.

ACT 2: "Based on our analysis [in Act 1], we reject the view and associated project that we term ‘makeism’. See Box 2 for a definition." 10/n

Oh that's the big giant Salesforce thingy in SF right? I was visiting Google at the same time last year and the accom prices were through the roof! Stunning amount of money and power Salesforce has - shutting down whole streets and shifting the homeless over for a couple days. It seemed surreal.

Wow had no idea Will I Am was into AI. So cool. And Jane Goodall too! And Meg you are also a megastar so this event looks super RAD!

I love this. I have been preparing notes for one of my thesis chapters that will touch on some of these ideas, so it is really helpful, thank you. Looking forward to reading the paper tomorrow.

"This view of ‘AI’ as a research field overlapping with psychology sees computational systems as theoretical tools (...) Accordingly, AI is one of the cognitive sciences (Figure 1), and for decades there was a close dialogue between the fields of AI and cognitive psychology." 3/n

Wow so many fellow Aussies in this thread!

Link to the alphabetical list
https://womeninaiethics.org/directory/