There are exceptions, to be sure. For instance, some sorts of conduct implicate fitness to hold certain roles (e.g., a professional truck driver who drives drunk off the clock, someone with significant discretionary authority over personnel matters who engages in racist conduct).
When do these exceptions apply? They may here, if the same people who showed such poor judgement in other contexts also have decision-making power over high-leverage systems.
[Caveat: I’m reporting what I perceive as the social norms—I would not personally want low-character or poor-judgment people working for me.]
As I see it, the societal expectation I referenced as an example generally kicks in when the connection between the specific off-work conduct and the person’s job duties is particularly strong and there is a meaningful risk of harm to people other than the corporation. I don’t think there is the kind of direct connection as in my examples for the median technical AI role here.
I think society’s expectations about addressing off-duty conduct increase as you go up the corporate food chain—they would be different for a senior executive than for a non-supervisory engineer. So I think society would generally expect mid-size+ corporations to investigate and adjudicate substantial claims that their CEO committed a sexual assault after being hired and while off-duty, even absent any connection to corporate activity.
When do these exceptions apply? They may here, if the same people who showed such poor judgement in other contexts also have decision-making power over high-leverage systems.
[Caveat: I’m reporting what I perceive as the social norms—I would not personally want low-character or poor-judgment people working for me.]
As I see it, the societal expectation I referenced as an example generally kicks in when the connection between the specific off-work conduct and the person’s job duties is particularly strong and there is a meaningful risk of harm to people other than the corporation. I don’t think there is the kind of direct connection as in my examples for the median technical AI role here.
I think society’s expectations about addressing off-duty conduct increase as you go up the corporate food chain—they would be different for a senior executive than for a non-supervisory engineer. So I think society would generally expect mid-size+ corporations to investigate and adjudicate substantial claims that their CEO committed a sexual assault after being hired and while off-duty, even absent any connection to corporate activity.