https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/04/04/googles-external-ai-council-is-no-more/ > Google has disbanded its controversial external AI ethics advisory board less than two weeks after it was formed. > Earlier this week, more than 1,200 Google employees started a petition urging Google to remove Kay Coles James, president of the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, from the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council. Outside academics and tech experts signed onto the petition, which called into question her inclusion on a board that was supposed to consider ethical issues related to artificial intelligence.