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Google says it is investigating an AI ethicist who for sharing sensitive documents, amid bristling tensions between employees and leadership

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Google says it has locked out one of its lead AI ethicists from her corporate account due to an investigation into her recent actions.

Sources say Mitchell was reprimanded by management on Tuesday and locked out of her corporate account and email, but has not been fired.Google has suspended the corporate account of Margaret Mitchell, a lead on its ethical AI team, claiming she downloaded and shared sensitive documents with external accounts.

The news was first reported by Dr. Timnit Gebru, who previously co-led Google's ethical AI division with Mitchell and left the company in December after"[Margaret's] not fired **yet**. But apparently they've told her she will be locked out for at least a few days,"on Tuesday. A current employee, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not permitted to talk to the press, also told Business Insider that Mitchell had been reprimanded by management, but not fired.

"Our security systems automatically lock an employee's corporate account when they detect that the account is at risk of compromise due to credential problems or when an automated rule involving the handling of sensitive data has been triggered. In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. We explained this to the employee earlier today," they said.

 

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