Google’s latest dilemma: Employees want right-wing figure off new AI council

Google’s latest dilemma: Employees want right-wing figure off new AI council

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Google is facing yet another test as it faces accusations that it’s too liberal: Its employees are demanding that it remove a conservative think tank’s leader from the company’s newly formed ethics advisory council.

More than 1,200 Google employees are calling on the tech giant to remove Kay Coles James, president of the Heritage Foundation, from the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council. The eight-member council was formed to “consider some of Google’s most complex challenges that arise under our AI Principles,” said Kent Walker, senior vice president for global affairs, in an announcement last week.