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Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead Rumman Chowdhury is worried about Musk’s impact on the federal government
Rumman Chowdhury, ex-director of Twitter's machine ethics team, has strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, nonprofit founder, and former director of Twitter’s machine ethics team, had strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during an SXSW panel on Thursday. “So we’re talking a big chunk of the company being just gone, whether of their own volition or not, but I think the most important thing was that just the looming shadow of [Musk’s] existence completely killed the culture of Twitter.” Musk has gone so far as to question X’s own fact-checking system, Community Notes, after it corrected posts on X that claimed Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the country’s elected president, had low approval ratings among its citizens.
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