论文标题
灰色连帽衫项目：大型烟草，大型技术和对学术诚信的威胁
The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the threat on academic integrity
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论文摘要
由于政府机构依靠学术界的专家建议来塑造有关人工智能的政策，因此重要的是，这些学者没有可能造成掩盖或偏见其判断的利益冲突。我们的工作探讨了大型技术如何积极地扭曲学术格局以满足其需求。通过将另一个行业（大型烟草）的经过充分研究的行为与当前的大型技术的行动进行比较，我们看到了这两个行业采用的类似策略。这些策略使任何行业都可以影响并影响学术和公共话语。我们研究了学术研究的资金作为大型技术用来提出社会负责的公众形象的工具，影响了由资助大学主持的事件和决定的决定，影响个人科学家的研究问题和计划，并发现可以利用的接受学者。我们证明了大型技术如何影响学术界，从机构层面到个人研究人员。因此，我们认为这是至关重要的，尤其是对于大学和其他高等教育机构而言，讨论接受大型技术资金的适当性和权衡，以及应提出哪些限制或条件。
As governmental bodies rely on academics' expert advice to shape policy regarding Artificial Intelligence, it is important that these academics not have conflicts of interests that may cloud or bias their judgement. Our work explores how Big Tech can actively distort the academic landscape to suit its needs. By comparing the well-studied actions of another industry (Big Tobacco) to the current actions of Big Tech we see similar strategies employed by both industries. These strategies enable either industry to sway and influence academic and public discourse. We examine the funding of academic research as a tool used by Big Tech to put forward a socially responsible public image, influence events hosted by and decisions made by funded universities, influence the research questions and plans of individual scientists, and discover receptive academics who can be leveraged. We demonstrate how Big Tech can affect academia from the institutional level down to individual researchers. Thus, we believe that it is vital, particularly for universities and other institutions of higher learning, to discuss the appropriateness and the tradeoffs of accepting funding from Big Tech, and what limitations or conditions should be put in place.
