(Protocol) Machine learning engineer Ari Font was worried about the future of Twitter’s algorithms. It was mid-2020, and the leader of the team researching ethics and accountability for the company’s ML had just left Twitter. For Font, the future of the ethics research was unclear.
Font was the manager of Twitter’s machine learning platforms teams — part of Twitter Cortex, the company’s central ML organization — at the time, but she believed that ethics research could transform the way Twitter relies on machine learning. She’d always felt that algorithmic accountability and ethics should shape not just how Twitter used algorithms, but all practical AI applications.
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