Meredith Whittaker, an artificial intelligence researcher, said she had left to work full time on AI ethics and to focus on “organizing for an accountable tech industry — and it’s clear Google isn’t a place where I can continue this work.”walkouts of workers around the worldThe protests followed a New York Times report revealing that the company had hidden the reasons for the departure of two top executives, one of whom, Android creator Andy Rubin, left with a large payout.
The internal tensions first boiled over publicly in 2017 after a conservative employee posted controversial comments saying women are less well suited to become engineers than men, prompting an uproar from other workers. Right-wing critics said his later dismissal showed executives had caved to worker activism.
Whittaker said she was worried about the way Google’s strong position in AI was carrying it into new markets, including healthcare, city development and governance, and transport. Whittaker, who co-founded a research group at New York University called the AI Now Institute to study the effects of AI, said she was leaving to work there full time. She also called on Google workers to become more organized, including unionizing, in order to take greater control of decision making at the company.
Not only do they want a job and be paid but also want to take over the company and decide policy. Just bugger - off.
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