The problem with AI ethics as a field is that it attracts a whole lot of activists, most of whom have mediocre contributions to the field at best, zero contributions at worst. Watching highly entitled, and often narcissistic people with no tangible accomplishments attack Yan LeCun is pretty insane.
The head of AI at Nvidia, who is very aggressive in her AI Ethics activism, recently put a screenshot of a list of names, which included mine, on a public tweet. In the tweet, she described the list as containing "fan boys" of an academic critical of "wokeness" as he calls it. I didn't know anything about the academic. I was added to the list because I commented on her tweet attacking him and asked her if she had engaged in any verbal discussions with him. That's it. I asked a question, and was put on a list proclaiming everyone in it as alt-right bigots. I found out about this because a former colleague called me and told me I was on the list. I didn't follow the guy she was attacking or anything like that. Not that it would have been justified if I had.
It should be noted that I was a leading advocate at a large enterprise software company for getting CUDA integration and helping NVIDIA sell more hardware in the enterprise. NVIDIA didn't fire her, and they should have.
The head of AI at Nvidia, who is very aggressive in her AI Ethics activism, recently put a screenshot of a list of names, which included mine, on a public tweet. In the tweet, she described the list as containing "fan boys" of an academic critical of "wokeness" as he calls it. I didn't know anything about the academic. I was added to the list because I commented on her tweet attacking him and asked her if she had engaged in any verbal discussions with him. That's it. I asked a question, and was put on a list proclaiming everyone in it as alt-right bigots. I found out about this because a former colleague called me and told me I was on the list. I didn't follow the guy she was attacking or anything like that. Not that it would have been justified if I had.
It should be noted that I was a leading advocate at a large enterprise software company for getting CUDA integration and helping NVIDIA sell more hardware in the enterprise. NVIDIA didn't fire her, and they should have.