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As a researcher in the area, this is really shocking. Microsoft had cultivated a ton of good will by growing that area of study, and to see it gone is not something I would've expected at all. One of the more surprising events in AI in the last few years for me.

Maybe the leading lab left these days. All the more pressure on the few orgs that want to "operationalize AI ethics".

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Coincidence that this particular send isn't using an AI-generated header image?

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My basic logic there was 'don't get whimsical when writing about layoffs'

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