Companies striving to implement ethical artificial intelligence products while under mounting pressure from regulators and activists are experiencing employee burnout, MIT Technology Review reports. Some businesses are offering additional compensation and mental health support for members of responsible AI teams, but employees say the pressures of meeting the need while doing psychologically draining work is exhausting. “It almost feels like you can’t take a break,” Twitter Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Director Rumman Chowdhury said. “I burned out really hard at one point.”
31 Oct. 2022
Burnout high among responsible AI teams
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