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By the way, I asked Shane Legg for a follow-up, but he replied that they were not currently doing any media so he's unable to comment further.
Here are the questions I wanted to ask him (maybe he can reply in future):
Q1. Has your opinion about risks associated with artificial general intelligence changed since 2011?
Q2. Can you comment on the creation of an internal ethics board at Google?
Q3. To what extent do people within DeepMind and Google agree with the general position of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute?
Q4. Do you believe that Google will create an artificial general intelligence?
Q5. Do you have any general comments for the LessWrong community regarding Google and their recent acquisition of DeepMind?
Q6. How much influence will the ethics committee actually have? For example, are there commercial and IP clawback provisions if the committee is deemed to be ignored or sidelined?
With Google's army of lawyers I wouldn't count on this as the enforcement mechanism. BUT, this has a chance to get Larry or Sergei involved, which has a chance of succeeding and making a huge difference.
From what I gather, it is chiefly Sergey Brin who is concerned with ethical issues, and his attention is on various Google X projects. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt don't seem to care as much, if at all. That's probably one reason Google has been getting visibly eviller in the last couple of years. Unless Deep Mind is a part of Google X, I would not expect the ethics board to matter.