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		hannasanarion on Oct 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showe... The story is, some ML researchers did their job properly and detected ethical issues before they became a problem. That's more rare than you'd think.

rrcaptain on Oct 11, 2018 | [–]

Yes. Software engineers taking ethics seriously and not letting technical enthusiasm blind them is news, not normality.

weliketocode on Oct 11, 2018 | [–]

I like the counterpoint, but it's not clear that the ML researchers were the ones who pulled the plug on the project.

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