Too many wokarati at MI6/CIA computer headquarters

[aufbahrung]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ity-crisis?

‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-alan-tu ... inflicted/

etc

More interested in their polarati than keeping the country safe

[Brian Peacock]

This story has been bubbling for a while. The management of the Alan Turing Institute have downgraded research into the possible pitfalls and perils of unchecked &/or unregulated AI development at the instruction of the technology minister, who has direct connections with AI firms, and who coincidentally have made political donations to him and the to Labour party. Staff have warned the charity commission that the independent research into the nefarious use of AI has been replaced by commercial activity focused on integrating AI/ML tech into weapons and security systems for commercial clients. So their work has shifted from keeping us all safe from the threats AI poses to society to making AI an effective military threat for anybody who's prepared to pay.

ATI is chaired by Doug Gurr, who is on a five year secondment from his job as head of Amazon’s UK operations. He was also appointed as the interim chair of the UK’s competition watchdog in March.

But as you want to make this about diversity please try and explain how that's relevant.

[aufbahrung]

Bad use of novel tech is a given. Developing our own weapons capablity might be the best way of telling what the enemy might be doing. The Sicilian Defence in Chess venicular.