Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead Rumman Chowdhury is worried about Musk’s impact on the federal government

Data scientist, non -profit founder, and former director of the Twitter Ethics team Rumman Chowdhury, Elon Kasturi and the Department of Government Skill (Dos) were storong. During a panel on SXSW on ThursdayThe

“When your funds become frosty and you don’t know if you will be dismissed, and it is, for example, the absolutely uninterrupted person is constantly saying strange things on the Internet, you still need to do your job, don’t you?” Chowdhury Dr. “The lights have to continue because Elon Kasturi is not moving the lights, even though he wants you to think of it.”

Musk and dog, which the musk is suggested, rushed to cut staff at the federal agencies in the United States, in some cases Compromise the cyberscopeThe The initiative surrounds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reduced the headcount in the National Highway Traffic Protection Administration, and among others, the Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed entry employees.

Chowdhury fears brain drainage as a result of dramatic decrease and chaos style. He said that he saw the same trend in 2022 on Twitter, when Kasturi earned the platform for $ 43 billionThe Chowdhury was one of the many workers to go to a short notice after receiving the musk.

“So some estimate say about 20% [Twitter] Has already gone before [Musk] He even took responsibility, and then he fired over 30%, right? “Chowdhury Dr.” So we’re talking about a large part of the company that just gone, whether their own will or not, but I think the most important thing was just the shadow of the only [Musk’s] The existence has completely killed Twitter culture. “

Chowdhury added, “[I]It is happening to the US government, an organization that is important to people in every American life and even on the American border. Twitter was a company, yes – it was an effective organization, but it was not like the government. […] [Musk] The species of the chaos the environment, and the chaos where the good is not done. “

Chowdhury also issued the outlook for Twitter – now X – which he established his relationship with politics. He accused musk of using X as a promotion tool for his own ideals – a “megaphone” to push the world to the world.

“Like, I don’t think there will be any debate or discussion here,” Chowdhury said. “I don’t think [former Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsy Elon Kasturi played anywhere near the way [has] – He was not on Twitter every day with his opinion, blocked people, you know, widen others, some have called people terrorists – for example, Jack has not acted that way. “

A report has been found This musk 2024 shared misleading claims about the US presidential election that was viewed about 1.2 billion times in X. In posts this year, musk has been repeatedly False About the cost of the federal, Ukrainian aggressionAnd Office Like the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Musk Has gone so far to ask questions After X’s own fact-cheeking system, community notes, it was amended the X posts, claimed that the country’s elected president was less than the approval rating among the citizens of Vloadimi Zensky. “Unfortunately, community notes are being gaming by the growing government and inheritance media,” Kasturi No post has been claimed without proofThe