After Saying He Wanted an Open Algorithm, Elon Musk Just Fired the Twitter Team Responsible for Doing Just That

Musk is trying to bring costs down by making major cuts to the company.

A number of employees have been locked out of their accounts since the billionaire CEO gutted the executive suite and dissolved the board.

The team that was caught by the purge was working on a project that Musk had advocated for.

It's the kind of short-sighted action we've come to expect from Musk, who has taken overTwitter's operations like a bull in a china shop

The director of the machine learning ethics, transparency, and accountability team was let go.

The company's controversial new CEO did not affect the company's love.

She wrote that she imagined feeling relief that she was the one who received the snap.

The team was tasked with researching political biases.

"We were told not to rock the boat, in no uncertain terms, prior to the layoffs," he said in an interview.

The entire team had been let go according to Joan Deitchman, the unit's senior manager.

The team is gone according to Deitchman. The team researched and pushed for transparency and choice.

She said that the team was inventing and building ethical tools and methodologies. "None of that is left."

It's a huge loss.

Ali Alkhatib, director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco, said that the META team was one of the only good case studies of a tech company.

The progressive mindset on ethical use of machine learning seems to be the last thing on Musk's mind at the moment. The billionaire lashed out at advertisers for abandoning him because of his comments.

It's ironic considering the amount of time and the fact that Musk has committed to transparency. In March, roughly a month before his bid to buy the company was announced, Musk argued that the algorithm needed to be open source.

The billionaire wants a scorched Earth approach that will keep their operations in a tailspin for a long time. Without the support of advertisers, it will be more difficult for the company to survive.

Whether Musk's own efforts to build a transparent and fair social media platform that caters to both sides of the aisle will ever amount to anything close to what this particular team was working on is not known.

It is hard to imagine given where we are.

The ethical artificial intelligence team has been fired by the CEO of the company.

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