- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 12:44:51 +0100
- To: Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com>
- Cc: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>, Christian Grün <cg@basex.org>, public-xslt-40@w3.org
> > Of course these are extreme and unlikely scenarios (I mean, female members of the CG? Craziness!). I'm just asking us all to consider whether we genuinely see *no* ethical boundaries for our work, or whether it's actually that we think some ethical boundaries are "obvious" while others are "extreme". I like to think that the group would be unwilling to accept contributions directly funded by white nationalists, regardless of the technical quality of those contributions. That's a hard question. Should we throw out our Picasso's and stop using Gill Sans? My view is no, partly because I go by the biblical text that we shouldn't throw stones at adulterers: it's not our place to judge others. But others may (and do) differ. > >> assistive technologies are greatly benefiting from AI and are helping to level the playing field for participation > > Well. Let me pull out the "as a disabled person" card, and put it on the table next to the "as a speaker of a minority language" card. > > > Claiming accessibility as a selling point for LLMs ignores the actual experience of disabled people, I have a relative who is profoundly deaf, and who greatly values the ready availability of subtitles. Mike
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