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  • One of Google's leading AI researchers says she's been fired in retaliation for an email to other employees

    12/03/2020 8:06:14 PM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 14 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 3 Dec 2020 | Hugh Langley
    She said she was terminated over an email sent to an internal company group. Gebru's reports were told she offered her resignation, but management jumped the gun, Gebru said. In that email, Gebru aired frustrations that senior managers had asked her to retract the paper without providing more reasons as to why. She used her experience to talk more broadly about Google's treatment of minority workers. "There is no way more documents or more conversations will achieve anything," she said. "However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the...
  • Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru

    12/03/2020 1:13:20 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 30 replies
    The Verge ^ | Dec 3, 2020, 1:11pm EST | Zoe Schiffer
    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...