Google pulls the plug on an AI ethics board it founded LAST WEEK

Google has caved to pressure from its staff and abandoned a new AI ethics panel after hundreds demanded conservative members of the board were sacked for their views. The search giant announced last week that it was setting up a new board to tackle moral issues surrounding its use of the technology. It hoped to avoid controversies by using a broad spectrum of expertise to inform its future decisions, but the move has ironically stirred up a debacle of its own. Eight experts from outside the company were recruited and employees at the traditionally liberal leaning firm took issue with two of the appointees. More than 1,000 of its protest-prone workers signed an open letter objecting to specific board members, who they say are'anti-trans' and pro-military drones.