I read the linked articles, Timnit’s email to the internal Google group, and Jeff Dean’s response to Timnit’s firing.
My summary of the events:
1. Timnit sent a paper to be published in a journal prior to getting it approved by Google, which is against company ploicy.
2. Once the Google team had reviewed the article, they said it was full of inconsistencies and errors and should not be published.
3. When Google told Timnit the paper should not be published, she through a fit and requested the names of every individual who reviewed the papar. Google would not provide her with this info.
4. Then Timnit, being very emotional, wrote a rather skathing email to the internal Google group alleging many biases of top management.
In my opinion, Timnit violated numerous Google company policies, and Google was within their right to fire her. She blames management of being biased against Blacks and women, and, comes across, as having a HUGE chip on her shoulder to put it mildly.
“...Timnit violated numerous Google company policies, and Google was within their right to fire her. She blames management of being biased against Blacks and women, and, comes across, as having a HUGE chip on her shoulder to put it mildly.”
Clearly.
With 120K employees Google will have all kinds of them.
Now the question is, where she goes from here?
Been around a bit?
“Prior to that I did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) “
https://ai.stanford.edu/~tgebru/
I am an entrepreneur who loves to work independently and continuously improve my technical skills. I have over 6 years of experience at Apple designing algorithms, analog and digital circuits and working on DSP related projects. I also have software experience through taking AI, machine learning and computer vision classes at Stanford as well as working on various personal projects.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnit-gebru-7b3b407