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Analysis + update Big tech s approach to avoiding AI regulation looks a lot like Big Tobacco s campaign to shape smoking rules, according to academics who say machine-learning ethics standards need to be developed outside of the influence of corporate sponsors.
In a paper included in the Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’21) next month, Mohamed Abdalla, a doctoral student in computer science at the University of Toronto, and Moustafa Abdalla, a doctoral student on deferral from Harvard Medical School, explore how Big Tech has adopted strategies similar to those used by Big Tobacco.
The analogy is not perfect, the two brothers acknowledge, but is intended to provide a historical touchstone and to leverage the negative gut reaction to Big Tobacco’s funding of academia to enable a more critical examination of Big Tech. The comparison is also not an assertion that Big Tech is deliberately buying off researchers; rather, the rese
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Tobacco killed 500,000 Americans in 2020 â same as the pandemic
A potential solution to tobacco-related deaths is a corporate âdeath penaltyâ.
Joshua Pearce 7 March, 2021 3:10 pm IST
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A potential solution to tobacco-related deaths is a corporate âdeath penaltyâ â otherwise known as judicial dissolution â when a judge revokes a corporationâs charter for causing significant harm to society. The legal procedure forces the corporation to dissolve; it ceases to exist. Both management and employees lose their jobs.
Although legal, corporate death penalties in the U.S. have not been used in years. Yet even the threat of one can be effective. For example, simply announcing the intention to revoke the charters of two tobacco industry misinformation groups (the Council for Tobacco Research and the Tobacco Institute, Inc.) resulted in both quietly closing in 1999.