Today we have professor Pedro Domingos and we are going to talk about activism in machine learning, AI ethics and kernels. In Pedro's book the master algorithm, he segmented the AI community into 5 distinct tribes with 5 unique identities (and before you ask, no the irony of an anti-identitarian doing do was not lost on us!). Pedro recently published an article in Quillette called Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence. Domingos has railed against political activism in the machine learning community and cancel culture. Recently Pedro was involved in a controversy where he asserted the NeurIPS broader impact statements are an ideological filter mechanism. Important Disclaimer: All views expressed are personal opinions. Pod version: https://anchor.fm/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/042---Pedro-Domingos---Ethics-and-Cancel-Culture-eq864v https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Yannic's video on Kernel Paper; "Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahRPdiCop3E https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152