James Hawley, PhD
@jrhawley@scholar.social
I use math and computers to study cancer biology. Senior Data Scientist at Roche. PhD in computational biology and cancer epigenetics from the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. This is my scientific account. Views are my own.
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If anyone has any doubts that the #AI industry is all about dismantling labour rights, let's consider this:
https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/
Google shuts down the #AlphaFold project. One of the most impactful machine learning projects in the sciences is being dismantled despite its immense value.
Why?
The article doesn't mention it, but it's almost certainly because DeepMind was trying to form a union to protect their rights and oppose Google's military contracts.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-unionization-talks-are-off-to-a-rocky-start/