If the Supremes overturn Roe vs Wade they will lose all of the legitimacy they’ve spent the last 70 years building.
At that point the Court itself is fubar. It probably already is fubar since Trump anyway. Clarence Thomas and his wife’s Jan 6th involvement is just the cherry on top of a shit show.
In the end they are falliable humans like the rest of us so perhaps we hold too high an opinion.
It is a strange hill to decide to die on. Even if you are the expert in the area, AI is weird and changing the world.
Most Nature papers have something wrong with them. I don't see any reason that reinforcement learning cannot learn the best layouts or what not. I don't know the space though enough to say more than that.
The NYTimes article alleges that he waged a misinformation campaign against two researchers. So there's that in the mix as well.
Checks a box that outside regulators can look at. Otherwise outside regulators would likely try to investigate and regulate. Also Google's own research can be used to counteract AI ethics claims that are existential to Google. These are
likely going to be Big Data type claims. Big ominous future threats like the GDPR for example.
We know the oil and gas industry produce copious amounts of CO2 causes global warming -- they knew because they funded the research. But publicly their position was "uncertainty".