At the UN's AI for Good conference, Abeba Birhane was forced to remove any mention of Gaza and genocide.
She explains what happened in her post, and observes what trend this is an example of:
what “good” means is overwhelmingly shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm
Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 79 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.