The meeting went well, but then the founders got some surprising news from Google. The company didn’t want its new ethics board to go forward after all. Suleyman was angry, since he’d pushed for the board’s establishment. Part of Google’s explanation at the time was that some of the board’s key members had conflicts of interest—Musk was potentially backing other AI efforts outside of DeepMind, for instance—and establishing a board just wasn’t legally feasible. To some of the board’s short-lived members, that sounded like baloney. They suspected that in reality, Google just didn’t like the idea
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