Reuben Binns⁉️I was invited by #Meta via a third party to join a roundtable about #AI fairness. There was a generous honorarium. They were asking me to sign an NDA. I said I wouldn't do it unless I could publicly declare my participation, the $ involved, and continue to criticise Meta based on public info. They ghosted me ...
Michael VealeMore University of Amsterdam #tax law revelations as the tax law department agrees secretly, without the Dean knowing, a specific letter offering #Netflix BV essentially lobbying and PR support around digital firms’ aggressive tax practices… https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/uva-geeft-netflix-belastingadvies #taxHavens #taxEvasion #fundingMatters #taxAvoidance #taxLaw
Universiteit van Amsterdam geeft Netflix belastingadvies vermomd als wetenschappelijk onderzoek
Netflix is al jaren over de hele wereld in het nieuws vanwege agressieve belastingontwijking. De vakgroep belastingrecht van de Universiteit van Amsterdam bood aan te helpen bij dit pr-probleem. Netflix sloot daarop een sponsorcontract voor een onderzoek ter waarde van 550.000 euro. De UvA trekt de toezeggingen nu in. ‘Ongelooflijk dom, om het zo te doen.’
Seda Gürses"we have to create some bright lines around what we will and will not do...."
Khadija Abdurrahman
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Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of 'ethics' in AI
Editors: Thao Phan, Jake Goldfein, Declan Kuch and Monique Mann
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EconomiesofVirtueINC2022TOD46-2.pdf
Corinne Cath-SpethWhat does it mean for junior scholars to work in the heavily industry funded field of "AI Ethics"? - Os Keyes
& I draw from our PhD experiences to detail tricky choices, no-win situations, and friendship & feminist refusal as ways forward in this new paper. https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EconomiesofVirtueINC2022TOD46-2.pdf
#fundingmatters #artificialinteligence #AI #feministrefusal #PhD #ethics #owningethics
Jogi Hofmüller (he/him)The racial connotations of this sentence for French academia😲
“ One report by a French academic, who asked for a €100,000 consultancy fee, was cited in a 2016 FT report as evidence that Uber was a “route out of the French banlieues”, delighting Uber executives.”
#fundingmatters https://twitter.com/fborgesius/status/1546752691057168384
MazzleHaucap ist INSM Mitglied. Gibt weniges was mich weniger verwundert
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RT @sedyst
For 44.000 euro from a tech company (in this case Uber), Haucap, an economics professor from Duesseldorf risked his reputation, harmed news outlets, and his university.
You wonder what some of these people would do for another zero?
#fundingmatters https://twitter.com/chelloway/status/1546439341823729664
https://twitter.com/sedyst/status/1546440376097165312
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RT @sedyst
For 44.000 euro from a tech company (in this case Uber), Haucap, an economics professor from Duesseldorf risked his reputation, harmed news outlets, and his university.
You wonder what some of these people would do for another zero?
#fundingmatters https://twitter.com/chelloway/status/1546439341823729664
https://twitter.com/sedyst/status/1546440376097165312
Anne Roths TwitterbrückeEin wichtiger Hashtag: #fundingmatters
jupkaHey #FOSDEM pilgrims, do you have a sense of ethical integrity?
Aral BalkanIn case you want to help me raise awareness about institutional corruption on birdsite (repost, updated link):
https://twitter.com/aral/status/1089095326005424128
A big thank you to Google and Facebook for protecting our data & democracy & sponsoring @CPDPconferences (Data Protection & Democracy) alongside other similar organisations like @apple, @bitsoffreedom, @EPICprivacy, @mozilla, @privacy_salon & @accessnow.
https://www.cpdpconferences.org
#SurveillanceCapitalism #whitewashing #InstitutionalCorruption #FundingMatters
Aral Balkan (@[email protected]) on Twitter
“A big thank you to Google and Facebook for protecting our data & democracy & sponsoring @CPDPconferences (Data Protection & Democracy) alongside other similar organisations like @apple, @bitsoffreedom, @EPICprivacy, @mozilla, @privacy_salon, @accessnow… https://t.co/Ai8pTUpnrQ”
@wodan @fosdem @indie What you just wrote is the largest pile of bullshit I read in quite a while. I am literally dumber for having read it. How do you equate not legitimising surveillance capitalism with surveillance capitalism itself. Truly amazing.
You can absolutely not take money from companies you are ethically opposed to and do not want to legitimise: it’s called having principles and a fucking backbone.