It was only Monday that they announced 9 new people joining the AMP AC to replace 10 others leaving: https://blog.amp.dev/2020/12/14/amp-advisory-committee-2020-...
There's lots of extremely qualified people fighting over working with/for Google, even for free.
Also, there are many idealists, who believe that they, alone, can "bring light to darkness."
I can't really blame them, but I'm old and cynical, with a singed tuchus, from playing that game, so you probably won't find me sitting on these committees.
Absolutely. I'd take it. I'd probably try to undermine the effort, but I'd still take the position!
I think the era of subversive engineering is dawning. We've had wave after wave of high-profile resignations and data leaks in the name of ethics, only to see their position filled with two worse candidates: a hydra of corruption!
How soon until ethical engineers realize protests don't work and start to corrode monopolies from the inside out? (like when Agent K jumps down the throat of The Bug in MiB.) Is that in itself ethical? That's a tough question, we'll know it when we see it?