Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter's 'Ethical AI' Team

Not long after Elon Musk announced plans to acquire Twitter last March, he mused about open sourcing "the algorithm" that determines how tweets are surfaced in user feeds so that it could be inspected for bias. His fans--as well as those who believe the social media platform harbors a left-wing bias--were delighted. But today, as part of an aggressive plan to trim costs that involves firing thousands of Twitter employees, Musk's management team cut a team of artificial intelligence researchers who were working toward making Twitter's algorithms more transparent and fair. Rumman Chowdhury, director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META--no, not that one) team at Twitter, tweeted that she had been let go as part of mass layoffs implemented by new management--although it hardly seemed that she was relishing the idea of working under Musk. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.