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Googlers, eggheads urge web giant's bosses to kick top conservative off its AI ethics council

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Re: Closed minds perhaps?

" We are setting up a new committee to talk about why so many black men are being shot by police. We need to balance opinions, so half the committee will be members of the KKK"

You have created a strawman argument - "we need balance, therefore 50% of the committee members must be KKK" when that is clearly not balanced or reflective of society at large. At least in the majority of locations given Wiki indicates that there are only an estimated 18,000 members in the US out of a population of 327m.

Balance would be looking at wider US society, saying that far right opinion accounts for 6% (again according to Wiki for the US), and having 1 member in a committee of 15 in order to be representative.

Make at least some of the committee meetings open to the public and publish meeting notes, maybe even stream meetings and you have openness and transparency to (largely) avoid suggestions that the committee isn't representative.

(assuming representative, transparency etc is something that is desired...)

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