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Mar 5, 2021 · Mar 5, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Timnit Gebru had expected her colleagues to rally around her when she was abruptly fired from Google on December 2nd. She was...
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Karen Hao. December 16, 2020. By now, we’ve all heard some version of the story. On December 2, after a protracted disagreement over the release of a research paper, Google forced out its ethical...
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Dec 4, 2020 · Technology. The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure. Timnit Gebru says she was pushed out of the company; now some are worried it will have a chilling effect on academics...
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Dec 31, 2020 · According to Gebru, after demanding that she and her colleagues withdraw a research paper critical of (profitable) large-scale AI systems, Google Research told her team that it had...
Dec 3, 2020 · Dec. 3, 2020. A well-respected Google researcher said she was fired by the company after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s artificial intelligence ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Hundreds of Google staff have signed a letter backing a leading AI ethics researcher who was sacked by Google. Timnit Gebru says she was fired after sending an internal email that accused...
Upon conclusion of the review, Dean announced Google would be changing its "approach for handling how certain employees leave the company," but still did not clarify whether or not Gebru's leaving Google was voluntary.
