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

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. 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. Chowdhury told WIRED earlier this week that the groups' work was put on hold as a result of Musk's impending acquisition. Chowdhury also said that her team had been doing some important new research on political bias that might have helped Twitter and other social networks from preventing particular viewpoints from being unfairly penalized. Joan Deitchman, a senior manager at Twitter's META unit confirmed that the entire team had been fired.