Questions have been raised over the selection of former Cambridge Analytica CDO, Dr. Alex Tayler, as a speaker at the upcoming AI for Good conference in Geneva Switzerland. The conference is later this May.
The core of the controversy is Tayler’s association with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm accused of illegally and unethically collecting and using personal data of millions of people.
One prominent critic of Dr. Tayler’s role at the conference is David Carroll, a US professor who has been a vocal critic of Cambridge Analytica’s data collection practices.
As if Alexander Nix at @CannesLions wasn’t bad enough. Cambridge Analytica’s Chief Data Officer is speaking at AI For Good (!) even though he committed mass data abuse breaking UK Data Protection Act in US elections. File under Unbearable Rehabilitations. https://t.co/3PdnwpPXpn pic.twitter.com/UCDdewA6CV
— David Carroll 🦅 (@profcarroll) May 12, 2019
You may have missed AI For Good speaker Dr Alex Tayler in the infamous undercover @Channel4News videos where the world finally discovered what SCL really is. https://t.co/NgJe6cLzGH
— David Carroll 🦅 (@profcarroll) May 12, 2019
AI for Good is a public charity backed by the United Nations (UN) which hosts dialogues on the beneficial use of Artificial Intelligence.
David Carroll, an associate professor at the Parsons School of Design, led the legal fight against Cambridge Analytica that revealed that it had illegally collected personal data of at least 50 million people.