Posted on 12/03/2020 1:13:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues.
The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper. The full text was first published in Platformer. “A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar,” it reads. “Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you ‘it has been decided’ that you need to retract this paper by next week... You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.”
After the email went out, Gebru told managers that certain conditions had to be met in order for her to stay at the company. Otherwise, she would have to work on a transition plan.
Megan Kacholia, vice president of engineering at Google Research, said she could not meet the conditions and accepted Gebru’s resignation as a result, according to OneZero. Kacholia added, “However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager,” according to Gebru. On Twitter, she claimed the decision to fire her ultimately came from Google’s head of AI, Jeff Dean.
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LMAO!
“You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.”
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The entitlement is strong in this one.
A good example of how all the wrong people are in charge of too many things.
I’m not sure what the meaning is, I just know that my company manages a highrise building full of Ethiopian immigrants and half of them seem to be named “Gebru”. The only thing more popular is some version of “selassie” included in their name (as tribute to Haile Selassie perhaps?), including “Gebreselassie” which seems to be a combination of the two words.
Can you point me to the American Sector? Because I do not understand the “personnel” gibberish, and apparently have been mis-directed to this place called “Google.”
Honestly, I can’t tell here if she went too far left or not far enough. Is she too cancel culture or not enough?
Hrm... Selassie means “trinity.”
And we are supposed care?
Sorry, I figure it’ll be a great day in America when Google goes down permanently
Just Google not being evil again.
We have an Eritrean clan in our church. “Gebremariam” is one of the names a lot of them have.
Yup...the surname Selassie is highly utilized.
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