LONDON—Google is disbanding a panel here to review its artificial-intelligence work in health care, people familiar with the matter say, as disagreements about its effectiveness dogged one of the tech industry’s highest-profile efforts to govern itself. The Alphabet Inc. unit is struggling with how best to set guidelines for its sometimes-sensitive work in AI—the ability for computers to replicate tasks that only humans could do in the past. It also highlights the challenges Silicon Valley faces in setting up self-governance...
Google is to establish an AI ethics panel in the future after disagreements emerged between its local DeepMind research unit and other members . The panel was established to examine how AI is harnessed across a variety of sectors . Setting such guidelines proved a difficult task , with panel members complaining they were not being given full access to information and research . Its studies included Google 's effects on data privacy and the troubling issue of screen addiction among others . In early April , Google disbanded another high - profile , independent ethics council following protests over the panel 's set - up .