Is ethical AI no longer important?

AFTER a tumultuous acquisition process, Elon Musk has acquired Twitter. This kick-started a wave of lay-offs within the company, with its ethical artificial intelligence (AI) team not spared either. In essence, Twitter’s team that was in charge of their machine learning (ML) ethics, transparency and accountability within the AI space is now gone.

With the company de-prioritising ethical AI, will other companies follow suit and perhaps more importantly, does this signal that ethics don’t matter when it comes to AI?

Well, in short, no.