Photo: Leon Neil / Staff (Getty Images) About three weeks after Blake’s sudden exit Artificial intelligence ethics Timnit Gabru, Google More details are coming out about the shady new set of policies designed for its research team. After reviewing internal communications and talking to researchers affected by the rule change, …
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Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the stories of coronavirus that Medscape editors around the world think you need to know about today: Fax Challenge Files More than 32,000 people volunteered to participate in challenge studies for COVID-19 vaccines, which …
Read More »SBA Dismissed Ethics Review for Agency Employees, Lawmakers in Emergency Loan Program
An unnoticed rule issued by the Small Business Administration earlier in the pandemic allows agency employees, legislators, and other federal officials to bypass an ethics review that aims to avoid conflicts of interest. The exemption pertained to $ 659 billion Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans, a congressionally approved lending facility …
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