Youtube brought in 15 billion dollars in revenue last year. It is probably most important to the customers of youtube (the ad buyers) that their ads aren't shown on controversial videos.
Also, I'd be really interested to know how much the Youtube team payed to build this classifier and how that compares to paying human moderators.
Also, I'd be really interested to know how much the Youtube team payed to build this classifier and how that compares to paying human moderators.