Fei-Fei Li left Google after coming under fire for her comments on a controversial military contract that Google held with the Pentagon.
to its board as an independent director.
The social media platform said that Li's expertise in artificial intelligence will bring relevant perspectives to the board. Li's appointment may also help Twitter to attract top AI talent from other companies in Silicon Valley. Li left her role as chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud in October 2018 after being criticized for comments she made in relation to the controversial Project Maven initiative with the Pentagon, which saw Google AI used to identify drone targets from blurry drone video footage., saying that they didn't want their AI technology used in military drones.
While Li wasn't directly involved in the project, a leaked email suggested she was more concerned about what the public would make of Google's involvement in the project as opposed to the ethics of the project itself. "This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google," she wrote, according to a copy of the email
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