Twitter's team focused on ethics rushed to publish research papers before Elon Musk's takeover fearing he would lay them off, report says

• Twitter's AI ethics team hurriedly published studies in the weeks before Elon Musk's takeover, Wired reported.
• The team feared "the runway would shut down when the Elon jumbo jet landed," one ex-staffer told Wired.
• In Musk's first week owning Twitter, he laid-off most of the team, known internally as META.

Twitter staff working on its ethics and moderation team were so concerned about Elon Musk's takeover that they rushed to publish a number of research papers before his arrival, fearing they would be laid-off, according to Wired.